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||1621 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (b. 1575)
||1621: Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist.


||1647 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1562)
||1647: Christen Sørensen Longomontanus dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1602)
||1652: John Greaves dies ... mathematician and astronomer.


||1715 – Michel Benoist, French scientist and missionary (d. 1774)
||1715: Michel Benoist born ... scientist and missionary.


||Leonor Michaelis (d. October 8, 1949) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic.
||1949: Leonor Michaelis dies ... biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic.


||1850 – Henry Louis Le Châtelier, French chemist and academic (d. 1936)
||1850: Henry Louis Le Châtelier born ... chemist and academic.


||1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
||1856: The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.


||1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1860: [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|Telegraph]] line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.


||Kikunae Ikeda (b. 8 October 1864) was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of Chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami.  Pic.
||1864: Kikunae Ikeda born ... chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of Chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami.  Pic.


||1872 – Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (d. 1952)
||1872: Mary Engle Pennington born ... bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer.


||1873 – Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (d. 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the period 1911–1913, together with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
||1873: Ejnar Hertzsprung dies ... chemist and astronomer ... together with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.


||Ignazio Porro (d. 8 October 1875) was an Italian inventor of optical instruments. Porro's name is most closely associated with the prism system which he invented around 1850 and which is used in the construction of Porro prism binoculars. He also developed a strip camera in 1853 for mapping, which was one of the earliest such. Pic.  
||1875: Ignazio Porro dies ... inventor of optical instruments. Porro's name is most closely associated with the prism system which he invented around 1850 and which is used in the construction of Porro prism binoculars. He also developed a strip camera in 1853 for mapping, which was one of the earliest such. Pic.  


||1901 – Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia (d. 2000). Pic.
||1901: Mark Oliphant born ... physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia. Pic.


||1910 – Helmut Kallmeyer, German chemist and soldier (d. 2006)
||1910: Helmut Kallmeyer born ... chemist and soldier.


File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  
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||1913: Robert Rowe Gilruth born ... aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He developed the X-1, first plane to break the sound barrier. Gilruth directed Project Mercury, the initial program for achieving manned space flight. Under his leadership, the first American astronaut orbited the Earth only a little over 3 years after NASA was created. In 1961, President Kennedy and the Congress committed the nation to a manned lunar landing within the decade. Gilruth was named the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and assigned the responsibility of designing and developing the spacecraft and associated equipment, planning and controlling missions, and training flight crews. He retired from NASA in 1973. Pic.
||1913: Robert Rowe Gilruth born ... aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He developed the X-1, first plane to break the sound barrier. Gilruth directed Project Mercury, the initial program for achieving manned space flight. Under his leadership, the first American astronaut orbited the Earth only a little over 3 years after NASA was created. In 1961, President Kennedy and the Congress committed the nation to a manned lunar landing within the decade. Gilruth was named the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and assigned the responsibility of designing and developing the spacecraft and associated equipment, planning and controlling missions, and training flight crews. He retired from NASA in 1973. Pic.


||1917 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
||1917: Rodney Robert Porter born ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1918 – Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1918: Jens Christian Skou born ... chemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the [[Hastings Rarities (nonfiction)|Hastings Rarities]].
File:John Ashworth Nelder.jpg|link=John Nelder (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and statistician [[John Nelder (nonfiction)|John Nelder]] born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the [[Hastings Rarities (nonfiction)|Hastings Rarities]].
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File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
File:Gordon Welchman.jpg|link=Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author [[Gordon Welchman (nonfiction)|Gordon Welchman]] dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
||1994: Mathematician Brian Hartley dies.  He will specialize in group theory. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/brian-hartley/


||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic.
||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic.


||File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].
||File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|[[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] gives [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice players]] brief lecture on [[Mathematics (nonfiction)|mathematics]].
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Revision as of 17:10, 25 August 2018

  • 1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

    1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.

  • 1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

    1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

  • 1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

    1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

  • 1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

    1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

  • 1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

    2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

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