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File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1686: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] dies. He questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground. | File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1686: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] dies. He questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground. | ||
||1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605) | |||
||1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784) | |||
||1753 – Robert Townsend, American spy (d. 1838) | |||
File:Julius Robert Mayer.jpg|link=Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|1814: Physician and physicist [[Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|Julius Robert von Mayer]] born. He will describe the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature; but his achievements will be overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat will be attributed to James Joule. | File:Julius Robert Mayer.jpg|link=Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|1814: Physician and physicist [[Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|Julius Robert von Mayer]] born. He will describe the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature; but his achievements will be overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat will be attributed to James Joule. | ||
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||1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. | ||1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. | ||
||1865 – Kate Gleason, American engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist (d. 1933) | |||
||1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821) | |||
||1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (d. 1939) | |||
||1884 – Hermann Kolbe, German chemist and academic (b. 1818) Extreme moustaches | |||
||1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943) | |||
||1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and educator (d. 1993) | |||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. | ||
||1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories. | |||
||1940 – Reinhard Furrer, Austrian-German physicist and astronaut (d. 1995) | |||
File:Hollywood Ten await fingerprinting.jpg|link=Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|1947: Red Scare: The "[[Hollywood Ten (nonfiction)|Hollywood Ten]]" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. | |||
||1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. | |||
||1963 – President Kennedy is buried in Washington D.C.. | |||
||1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in Fort Worth, TX. | |||
||1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886) | |||
||1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. | |||
||2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician and educator (b. 1931) | |||
|File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Writer-Sorceror [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] is behind the [[Rosewater cannon]] trade, says supervillain [[Abomynous]]. | |File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Writer-Sorceror [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] is behind the [[Rosewater cannon]] trade, says supervillain [[Abomynous]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:07, 12 September 2017
1686: Scientist and bishop Niels Steensen dies. He questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
1814: Physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer born. He will describe the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature; but his achievements will be overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat will be attributed to James Joule.
1840: Astronomer Caroline Herschel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which improve lens refraction in telescopes.
1841: Mathematician and logician Ernst Schröder born. His monumental Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik will prepare the way for the emergence of mathematical logic as a separate discipline in the twentieth century by systematizing the various systems of formal logic of the day.
1858: Charles Sanders Peirce invents new variety of Gnomon algorithm, anticipates future work by Ernst Schröder.
1915: Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1947: Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.