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||602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.
||602: Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.


||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity.
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley - Just after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, Torporley was examined by the council for having cast the king's nativity.


||1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744)
||1701: Anders Celsius born ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician.


||1703 – Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (b. 1644)
||1703: Henry Winstanley dies ... painter and engineer.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1754: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] dies. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', is prized by gamblers.
||Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS FRCP FRCS (b. 27 November 1857) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s.


File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
File:Berners_Street_Hoax_caricature.jpg|1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.


||1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (b. 1719)
||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine.


File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.


||1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
||1857: Charles Scott Sherrington born ... physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1950)
||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer.


|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.


||Auguste Arthur de la Rive (b. November 27, 1873) was a Swiss physicist.  
||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist.
 
||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel.


||1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... astronomer and educator.


||1875 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826)
||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic.


||1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.


||1897 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1969)
||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss.


||1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Paul Tannery (20 December 1843 – 27 November 1904) was a French mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development.
||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development.


||1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967)
||1909: Anatoly Maltsev born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1923 – J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician (d. 2011). Pic.
||1923: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. born ... nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. Pic.


||George Chandler Whipple (d. November 27, 1924) was an American civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.
||1924: George Chandler Whipple dies ... civil engineer and an expert in the field of sanitary microbiology. His career extended from 1889 to 1924 and he is best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health. Whipple published some of the most important books in the early history of public health and applied microbiology. Pic.


||1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009)
||1925: John Maddox born ... chemist, physicist, and journalist.


||1928 – Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (d. 2001)
||1928: Josh Kirby born ... painter and illustrator.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


||1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
||1942: World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.


||1944 – Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)
||1944: Leonid Mandelstam dies ... physicist and academic.


||1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
||1965: Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.


||1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
||1971: The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.


File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The The [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 landing module]] crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.  


||1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
||1978: In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.


||Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS (d. 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.
||1983: Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.


||1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927)
||1988: Jan Hein Donner dies ... chess player and author.


||1990 – Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (b. 1951)
||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos dies ... physicist and academic.


||2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] crash.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] crash.


|File:Fortunes of a Street Waif.jpg|[[Lud the Gamer]] was boot-thief as child, say Biographer-Critics.
|File:Flea circus ticket.jpg|link=Human Flea Circus|[[Human Flea Circus]] breaks attendance record.
|File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] makes surprise appearance at the [[Human Flea Circus]].
|File:Nacre_powder_flask.jpg|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|link=Nacre (nonfiction)|Sales of ''Turbo marmoratus'' flasks are brisk at the [[Human Flea Circus]].
|File:Iridescent_Ammonite.jpg|link=Gold Ruster|Supervillain [[Gold Ruster]] threatens to use "rust powers" on Fort Knox gold.
|File:Nobel Ice (Fabergé egg).jpg|link=Dysprosium Titanate|[[Gem detective (nonfiction)|Gem detective]] alert: Fabergé egg recently commissioned by [[Dysprosium Titanate]] made from Spin Ice, may be trap for [[Roger Zelazny]].
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Revision as of 18:32, 2 September 2018

  • 1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.

    1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.

  • 1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

    1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.

  • 1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

    1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

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