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File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. | File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. | ||
||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search | ||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search. | ||
János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. | János_Bolyai_-_Romanian_postage_stamp_circa_1960.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry. | ||
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||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1852: Henri Becquerel born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm dies ... French mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm dies ... French mathematician and academic. Pic search, see also: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Francois-Sturm | ||
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight. | File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight. | ||
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||1861: Charles Duryea born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Pic (in vehicle). | ||1861: Charles Duryea born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Pic (in vehicle). | ||
||1863: Arthur Dehon Little born ... chemist and engineer. Pic search | ||1863: Arthur Dehon Little born ... chemist and engineer. Pic search. | ||
||1869: Leon Marchlewski born ... chemist and academic. Pic (lab). | ||1869: Leon Marchlewski born ... chemist and academic. Pic (lab). | ||
||1878: Alfred Bird dies ... chemist and businessman, invented baking powder. Pic search | ||1878: Alfred Bird dies ... chemist and businessman, invented baking powder. Pic search. | ||
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | ||
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||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pic. | ||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pic. | ||
||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search: | ||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search. | ||
||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search | |||
||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | ||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | ||
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File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". | File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". | ||
||1960: Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy. Pic search | ||1960: Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy. Pic search. | ||
||1961: Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Major in the KGB, defects to the US along with his wife and daughter by riding the train to the Swedish border. Pic search | ||1961: Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Major in the KGB, defects to the US along with his wife and daughter by riding the train to the Swedish border. Pic search. | ||
||1961: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization. | ||1961: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization. | ||
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||1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet. | ||1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet. | ||
||1970: Theodore Samuel Motzkin dies ... mathematician. Pic search | ||1970: Theodore Samuel Motzkin dies ... mathematician. Pic search. | ||
||1970: Ernest Marsden dies ... physicist. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. Pic. | ||1970: Ernest Marsden dies ... physicist. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. Pic. | ||
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File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down. | File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down. | ||
||2005: Heinrich Gross dies ... psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear. Pic search | ||2005: Heinrich Gross dies ... psychiatrist, medical doctor and neurologist, a reputed expert as a leading court-appointed psychiatrist, ill-famed for his proven involvement in the killing of at least nine children with physical, mental and/or emotional/behavioral characteristics considered "unclean" by the Nazi regime, under its Euthanasia Program. His role in hundreds of other cases of infanticide is unclear. Pic search. | ||
||2003: George Fisher dies ... American cartoonist. Pic: http://www.argenweb.net/white/wchs/GeorgeFisher_files/GeorgeFisher.htm | ||2003: George Fisher dies ... American cartoonist. Pic: http://www.argenweb.net/white/wchs/GeorgeFisher_files/GeorgeFisher.htm | ||
Revision as of 11:05, 20 April 2020
1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.