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||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor. | ||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor. | ||
||1862: Mikhail Ostrogradsky dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1862: Mikhail Ostrogradsky dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada). | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada). | ||
||1867: Mary | ||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Acworth+Evershed | ||
||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic. | |||
||1874: Gustave Whitehead born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||1874: Gustave Whitehead born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1878: Agner Krarup Erlang born . | File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis. | ||
||1879: Albert Taylor born ... electrical engineer who made important early contributions to the development of radar. Pic. | ||1879: Albert Taylor born ... electrical engineer who made important early contributions to the development of radar. Pic. | ||
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||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. | ||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. | ||
||1983: The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. | ||1983: The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. |
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1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.
1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.
1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).
2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.