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||1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1748) | |||
||1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779) | |||
||1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1698) | |||
||1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men." | |||
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. | File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. | ||
||1844 – John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776) | |||
||1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (d. 1919) | |||
||1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland. | |||
||1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | |||
||1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company (d. 1965) | |||
||1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later. | |||
File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1907 – Irene Fischer, Austrian-American geodesist and mathematician (d. 2009) | |||
||1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841) | |||
||1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar. | |||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1928: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries the popular young singer Olive May Franks of Bristol. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1928: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries the popular young singer Olive May Franks of Bristol. | ||
|1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848) | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1939: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for unpatriotic opinions. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1939: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for unpatriotic opinions. | ||
||1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. | |||
||1951 – Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1891) | |||
||1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890) | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1976: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | |||
||1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901) | |||
||1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (b. 1912) | |||
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Revision as of 19:39, 21 July 2017
1801: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
1904: Physicist and crime-fighter Hendrik Lorentz uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries the popular young singer Olive May Franks of Bristol.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1938: Game designer Gary Gygax born.
1939: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for unpatriotic opinions.
1976: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.