Template:Selected anniversaries/April 29: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
|| *** DONE: Pics *** | |||
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] born. He will invent the figure of John Bull. | File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] born. He will invent the figure of John Bull. | ||
| Line 19: | Line 20: | ||
||1864: Abraham Pineo Gesner born ... physician and geologist. He invented kerosene. Pic. | ||1864: Abraham Pineo Gesner born ... physician and geologist. He invented kerosene. Pic. | ||
||1872: Forest Ray Moulton born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1872: Forest Ray Moulton born ... astronomer and academic. In the first decades of the twentieth century, some additional small satellites were discovered to be in orbit around Jupiter. Dr. Moulton proposed that these were actually gravitationally-captured planetesimals. This theory has become well-accepted among astronomers. Pic. | ||
||1876: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel born ... mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Montel | ||1876: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel born ... mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Montel | ||
||1882: Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman born ... printer, typographer, and Nazi resister. Pic. | ||1882: Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman born ... printer, typographer, and Nazi resister. Pic. | ||
| Line 65: | Line 64: | ||
||1966: William Eccles dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/william_eccles.htm | ||1966: William Eccles dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/william_eccles.htm | ||
||1967: After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. | ||1967: After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title. Pic. | ||
||1970: Mathematician Paul Finsler dies. Finsler spaces were named after him by Élie Cartan in 1934. The Hadwiger–Finsler inequality, a relation between the side lengths and area of a triangle in the Euclidean plane, is named after Finsler and his co-author Hugo Hadwiger, as is the Finsler–Hadwiger theorem on a square derived from two other squares that share a vertex. Pic: https://neurosophie.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/paul-finsler-und-eine-welt-ohne-widerspruche/ | ||1970: Mathematician Paul Finsler dies. Finsler spaces were named after him by Élie Cartan in 1934. The Hadwiger–Finsler inequality, a relation between the side lengths and area of a triangle in the Euclidean plane, is named after Finsler and his co-author Hugo Hadwiger, as is the Finsler–Hadwiger theorem on a square derived from two other squares that share a vertex. Pic: https://neurosophie.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/paul-finsler-und-eine-welt-ohne-widerspruche/ | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 29 April 2019
1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1756: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse constructs an exceptionally accurate orrery, which he will later use to create an early form of time crystals (nonfiction).
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1892: Mathematicians John Havelock and Henri Poincaré co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the Chernobyl disaster to within 98.37% accuracy.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1985: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers an unlicensed halting problem "which will almost certainly result in a major radiation release event within a year."
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
1987: Steganographic analysis of The Shovel unexptedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, apparently a transdimensional contract requiring Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung to "blow up a nuclear power plant, and this time do it right".
2018: The two creatures depicted in Two Creatures 3 officially petition the United Nations for political asylum.