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||1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (b. 1625) | |||
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman. | ||
||1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, Georgian-Russian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1903) | |||
||1891 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1983) | |||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]]. | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1893: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]]. | ||
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[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)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | ||
||1913 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1916 – José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832) | |||
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws." | File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws." | ||
||1920 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1998) | |||
||1930 – Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2014) | |||
||1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. | |||
||1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. | |||
||1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. | |||
||2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016. | |||
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Revision as of 06:06, 5 July 2017
1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1893: Transdimensional corporation mascot spontaneously generates sales pitch for Mark Twain.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."