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||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. | ||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. | ||
||1865 | ||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. | ||
||1905 | ||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician. | ||
||1906 | ||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1907 | ||1907: Robert A. Heinlein born ... science fiction writer and screenwriter. | ||
||Robert Alden Cornog | ||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1927: Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler dies ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1930 | ||1930: Arthur Conan Doyle dies ... writer. | ||
|| | ||1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). | ||
||1937 | ||1936: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn born ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic. | ||
||1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. | |||
||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. | ||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation. |
Revision as of 12:55, 19 August 2018
1752: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard born. He will invent the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1945: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1946: Aviator Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1947: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung announces plan to sell shares in the career of Joseph McCarthy, calls it "a new day in political campaigning."