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||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). Pic. | ||AD 51: Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). Pic. | ||
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||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic ... after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Pic. | ||1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous born ... mathematician and academic ... after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork (usually of a different pitch, creating a specific harmonic interval), onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. Pic. | ||
||1826: Theodore Judah born ... engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad. | ||1826: Theodore Judah born ... engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad. Pic. | ||
||1832: Jean-François Champollion dies ... scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed many previous assumptions about ancient Egypt to be wrong, making it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. Pic. | ||1832: Jean-François Champollion dies ... scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. The significance of Champollion's decipherment was that he showed many previous assumptions about ancient Egypt to be wrong, making it possible to begin to retrieve many kinds of information recorded by the ancient Egyptians. Pic. | ||
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||1882: Britain's first electric trams run in east London. | ||1882: Britain's first electric trams run in east London. | ||
||1891: Mathematician and academic David Hilbert submits article on his space filling curve, ''Über die stetige Abbildung einer Linie auf ein Flächenstück'' to the journal Mathematische Annalen. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html *Wik Pic. | ||1891: Mathematician and academic David Hilbert submits article on his space filling curve, ''Über die stetige Abbildung einer Linie auf ein Flächenstück'' to the journal Mathematische Annalen. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html *Wik Pic. | ||
||1893: Charles Herbert Colvin born ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. | ||1893: Charles Herbert Colvin born ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. Pic search. | ||
||1901: Wilbur R. Franks born ... scientist, invented the g-suit. | ||1901: Wilbur R. Franks born ... scientist, invented the g-suit. Pic. | ||
||1903: Malcolm Dole | Malcolm Dole (TO_DO)|link=Malcolm Dole (nonfiction)|1903: Chemist and academic [[Malcolm Dole (nonfiction)|Malcolm Dole]]. He will discover the Dole effect, an inequality in the ratio of the heavy isotope 18O (a "standard" oxygen atom with two additional neutrons) to the lighter 16O, measured in the atmosphere and seawater. | ||
||1903: John Scarne born ... magician and author. | ||1903: John Scarne born ... magician and author. Pic (cool). | ||
||1904: George Gamow born ... physicist and cosmologist. | ||1904: George Gamow born ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||1907: Iéna explosion: was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). Completed in 1902, the ship was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron and remained there for the duration of her career, frequently serving as a flagship. She participated in the annual fleet manoeuvres and made many visits to French ports in the Mediterranean. In 1907, while docked for repairs, 120 people died and Iéna was badly damaged by a magazine explosion that was probably caused by the decomposition of old Poudre B propellant. Multiple investigations were launched afterwards and the ensuing scandal forced the Navy Minister to resign. While it was possible to repair her, the ship was not thought worth the time or expense. Her salvaged hulk was used as a gunnery target in 1909 before it was sold for scrap in 1912. | ||1907: Iéna explosion: was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). Completed in 1902, the ship was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron and remained there for the duration of her career, frequently serving as a flagship. She participated in the annual fleet manoeuvres and made many visits to French ports in the Mediterranean. In 1907, while docked for repairs, 120 people died and Iéna was badly damaged by a magazine explosion that was probably caused by the decomposition of old Poudre B propellant. Multiple investigations were launched afterwards and the ensuing scandal forced the Navy Minister to resign. While it was possible to repair her, the ship was not thought worth the time or expense. Her salvaged hulk was used as a gunnery target in 1909 before it was sold for scrap in 1912. | ||
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||1910: Knut Johan Ångström dies ... physicist. He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic. | ||1910: Knut Johan Ångström dies ... physicist. He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic. | ||
||1914: Ward Kimball born ... animator, producer, and screenwriter. | ||1914: Ward Kimball born ... animator, producer, and screenwriter (Disney). Pic (making art!). | ||
||1914: Robert R. Wilson born ... physicist, sculptor, and architect. Pic. | ||1914: Robert R. Wilson born ... physicist, sculptor, and architect. Pic. | ||
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File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down. | File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1931: US Navy says [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] cannot be tamed, should be put down. | ||
||1932: Ed Roth born ... illustrator. | ||1932: Ed Roth born ... car customizer, illustrator. Pic. | ||
||1934: Janez Strnad born ... physicist and academic, popularizer of natural science. Pic. | ||1934: Janez Strnad born ... physicist and academic, popularizer of natural science. Pic. | ||
||1935: Bent Larsen born ... chess player and author. | ||1935: Bent Larsen born ... chess player and author. Pic (cool). | ||
||1944: Louis Buchalter dies ... mob boss. | ||1944: Louis Buchalter dies ... mob boss, Murder Inc. Pic | ||
||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster. | ||1944: Louis Capone dies ... gangster (not related to Al Capone). No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1948: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright. Pic. | ||1948: Antonin Artaud born ... actor, director, and playwright. Pic. | ||
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||1952: Charles Scott Sherrington dies ... neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. Pic. | ||1952: Charles Scott Sherrington dies ... neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. Pic. | ||
||1954: Mark | ||1954: Mark Chorvinsky born ... magician and author, FX, Forteana. Pic search. http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2020/10/when-i-interviewed-mark-chorvinsky.html | ||
||1956 An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM: An Wang sells his patent for ferrite core memory to IBM for $500,000. One of the most important inventions in computer history, ferrite core memory was widely used in digital computers from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. The U.S. Patent Office awarded Wang the patent for what he called a pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. Jay Forrester at MIT is considered the inventor of core memory. *CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic search. | ||1956 An Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM: An Wang sells his patent for ferrite core memory to IBM for $500,000. One of the most important inventions in computer history, ferrite core memory was widely used in digital computers from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s. The U.S. Patent Office awarded Wang the patent for what he called a pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. Jay Forrester at MIT is considered the inventor of core memory. *CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/03/on-this-day-in-math-march-4.html Pic search. | ||
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||1986: The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. | ||1986: The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. | ||
||1986: Albert L. Lehninger dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||1986: Albert L. Lehninger dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1993: Izaak Kolthoff dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1993: Izaak Kolthoff dies ... chemist and academic. Pic (cool chem!). | ||
||1997: Robert H. Dicke dies ... physicist and astronomer ... made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. Pic. | ||1997: Robert H. Dicke dies ... physicist and astronomer ... made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity. Pic. | ||
||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist. | ||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Pic (cartoon). | ||
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | ||
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1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
- Malcolm Dole (TO DO)
1903: Chemist and academic Malcolm Dole. He will discover the Dole effect, an inequality in the ratio of the heavy isotope 18O (a "standard" oxygen atom with two additional neutrons) to the lighter 16O, measured in the atmosphere and seawater.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2007: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses time crystals to reveal centuries-old events.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.