Template:Selected anniversaries/September 18: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 78: Line 78:


||2014: Richard F. Arenstorf born ... mathematician who discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon, called an Arenstorf Orbit, which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon. Pic.
||2014: Richard F. Arenstorf born ... mathematician who discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon, called an Arenstorf Orbit, which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon. Pic.
File:Red Spiral 3.jpg|link=Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 3 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 3]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2016: Wolfhart Zimmermann dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/
||2016: Wolfhart Zimmermann dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic: http://wwwth.mpp.mpg.de/conf/zimmermann-memorial/


</gallery>
</gallery>

Revision as of 19:10, 12 September 2018

  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

  • 1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

    1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

  • 2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/September_18&oldid=34604"