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File:Geminiano Montanari.jpg|link=Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|1687: Astronomer and academic [[Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|Geminiano Montanari]] dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness. | ||AD 54 – Emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances; his 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him. | ||
||1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy. | |||
File:Geminiano Montanari.jpg|link=Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic [[Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|Geminiano Montanari]] dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness. | |||
||1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. | |||
||Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (English: /ˈvɪərkoʊ, ˈfɪərxoʊ/;[2] German: [ˈvɪɐ̯çoː];[3][4] 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician, known for his advancement of public health. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" because his work helped to discredit humourism, bringing more science to medicine. He is also known as the founder of social medicine and veterinary pathology, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine". | |||
||1870 – Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic (d. 1945) | |||
||1884 – The International Meridian Conference votes on a resolution to establish the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich, in London, as the initial meridian for longitude. | |||
||1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14. | |||
||1893 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (d. 1971) | |||
||1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C. | |||
||1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) | |||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1990: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1990: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen. | ||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|[[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteers answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen. | ||2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | ||
||File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|[[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] volunteers answer questions, calm fears about the number thirteen. | |||
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Revision as of 06:18, 27 July 2017
1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1990: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.