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||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. Pic search dubious | ||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. Pic search dubious. | ||
||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||
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||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. Pic. | ||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. Pic. | ||
||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search | ||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search. | ||
File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem. | File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem. | ||
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||1971: Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. | ||1971: Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. | ||
||1977: Lambros Demetrios Callimahos dies ... US Army cryptologist. Pic search | ||1977: Lambros Demetrios Callimahos dies ... US Army cryptologist. Pic search. | ||
||1988: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic. | ||1988: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic. | ||
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||1998: Tommy Flowers dies ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Pic. | ||1998: Tommy Flowers dies ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Pic. | ||
||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search | ||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search. | ||
||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||
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||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||
||2017: The anonymous user now widely referred to as “Q” appeared for the first time on 4chan, a so-called image board that is known for its grotesque memes, sickening photographs, and brutal teardown culture. Q predicted the imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton and a violent uprising nationwide, posting this: HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M’s will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities. | |||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
2013: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.