Template:Selected anniversaries/August 14: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 63: Line 63:
||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.


||1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
||1941: Paul Sabatier dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
||1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.


||1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
||1958: Frédéric Joliot-Curie dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
||1967: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.


||2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
||1991: C. Guy Suits dies ... Chauncey Guy Suits was an American electrical engineer and research director who joined the General Electric Company in 1930, and subsequently directed the company's research laboratory and was vice-president (1945-65). He helped develop a new process, announced in 1962, to create synthetic diamonds by compressing carbon in a large hydraulic press at pressures up to three million pounds per square inch, while simultaneously heated to 9,000 ºF, without needing the metal catalyst agent previously used. He held 77 U.S. patents, in such varied applications as railway block signal improvements, circuits for sequence-flashing electric signs, radio circuits, beacons, submarine signals, theater light dimmers and photo-electric relays. Upon his retirement from G.E., he consulted on industrial research management. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_14.htm


||2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
||2000: Alain Fournier dies ... computer scientist and academic.
 
||2003: A major power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.


File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust capsule]], which returned to Earth in 2006.  
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust capsule]], which returned to Earth in 2006.  


||2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
||2012: Sergey Kapitsa dies ... physicist and demographer.


|File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected.
|File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected.
</gallery>
</gallery>

Revision as of 08:36, 15 August 2018

  • 1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

    1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

  • 1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

    1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

  • 1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

    1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

    1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

  • 1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

    1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

  • 1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

    1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

  • 2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

    2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/August_14&oldid=32707"