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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1769 – André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (d. 1823) | |||
||1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941) | |||
||1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. | |||
||1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928) | |||
||1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) | |||
||1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966) | |||
||1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia. | |||
||1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2015) | |||
||1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | |||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1950 – United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. | |||
||Edwin Howard Armstrong (d. January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. | ||Edwin Howard Armstrong (d. January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. | ||
||1958 – The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt. | |||
||1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. | |||
||1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. | |||
||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. | |||
File:Winter Soldier Investigation.gif|link=Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|1971: The [[Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|Winter Soldier Investigation]], organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit. | File:Winter Soldier Investigation.gif|link=Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|1971: The [[Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|Winter Soldier Investigation]], organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit. | ||
File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]] | File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]] | ||
||1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935) | |||
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. | File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies. | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 29 October 2017
1632: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi dies. He was recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1638: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Physicist and crime-fighter Werner Heisenberg uses the uncertainty principle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1971: The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
2001: American comic book artist Gil Kane dies.
2002: Anarchimedes uses Gnomon algorithm to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Talk show host Dick Cavett attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
