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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]]. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]]. | ||
||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | ||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online. | ||
||1689: Samuel Molyneux born ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden | ||1689: Samuel Molyneux born ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden | ||
||1714: Marc René, marquis de Montalembert born ... engineer and | ||1714: Marc René, marquis de Montalembert born ... military engineer and writer, known for his work on fortifications. Pic. | ||
||1932: Stanisław (Stash) Świerczkowski born ... mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the Non-Tetratorus Theorem. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Sets-Numbers-Library-Mathematics-Swierczkowski/dp/071007137X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535988419&sr=1-1 | ||1932: Stanisław (Stash) Świerczkowski born ... mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the Non-Tetratorus Theorem. Pic: https://www.amazon.com/Sets-Numbers-Library-Mathematics-Swierczkowski/dp/071007137X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535988419&sr=1-1 | ||
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||1994: Julian Schwinger dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Pic. | ||1994: Julian Schwinger dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Pic. | ||
||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer. | ||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Cocke+RISC | ||
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt. | ||
Revision as of 02:05, 16 July 2019
1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.
1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
