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File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1641: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1641: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
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. | ||
File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | ||
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1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850) | |||
2005 – Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924) | |||
2013 – Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925) | |||
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. | |||
1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal. | |||
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant | |||
Revision as of 08:26, 9 March 2017
1641: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new type of scrying engine.
1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
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.
1916 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
2005 – Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
2013 – Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925)
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1974 – Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant