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||217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. | |||
||109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome. | |||
||1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. | |||
||1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (d. 1680) | |||
||1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580) | |||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place. | ||
||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834) | |||
||1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838) | |||
||1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864) | |||
||1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted. | |||
||1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902) | |||
||1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914) | |||
||1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915) | |||
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | ||
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File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | ||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess| | ||1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | ||
||1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975) | |||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time." | |||
||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. | |||
||1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945) | |||
||1909 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991) | |||
||1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (d. 2011) | |||
||1914 – Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (d. 2008) | |||
||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001) | |||
||1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. | |||
||1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996) | |||
||1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. | |||
||1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014) | |||
||1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012) | |||
||1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014) | |||
||1938 – Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | |||
||1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986) | |||
||1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. | |||
||1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883) | |||
||1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906) | |||
||Peter Thullen (d. 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician. | |||
||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908) | |||
||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919) | |||
||2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926) | |||
|| | ||2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933) | ||
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Revision as of 12:20, 26 November 2017
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."