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||John Louis Emil Dreyer (d. September 14, 1926) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. | ||John Louis Emil Dreyer (d. September 14, 1926) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. | ||
||1930 | ||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
||1954 | ||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany). | ||
||1959 | ||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. | ||
||1960 | File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded. | ||
||Alberto González Domínguez | ||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. | ||
||2015 | ||On Sept. 14, 2013, Haggard and her team detected an X-ray flare from Sgr A* 400 times brighter than its usual, quiet state. This “megaflare” was nearly three times brighter than the previous brightest X-ray flare from Sgr A* in early 2012. https://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/january/nasa-s-chandra-detects-record-breaking-outburst-from-milky-way-s-black-hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A* | ||
||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. | |||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
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1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.