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||12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor. | |||
||1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. | |||
||1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society | |||
||1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826) | |||
||1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794) | |||
||1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. | |||
File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] uses continued fraction theory to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] uses continued fraction theory to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) | |||
||1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014) | |||
||1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1852) | |||
File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. | File:Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann.jpg|link=Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|1939: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand von Lindemann (nonfiction)|Ferdinand von Lindemann]] dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number. | ||
||1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. | |||
||1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States. | |||
||Ivan Emanuel Wallin (22 January 1883 – 6 March 1969) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory.[2] Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man" | |||
||1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three. | |||
||1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory. | |||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1981: Modern dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]]. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1981: Modern dance company [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]]. | ||
File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1982: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] dies. | File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|1982: Writer and philosopher [[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] dies. | ||
||Hans Albrecht Bethe (German: [ˈhans ˈalbʁɛçt ˈbeːtə]; | ||1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers. | ||
||2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | |||
||Hans Albrecht Bethe (German: [ˈhans ˈalbʁɛçt ˈbeːtə]; d. March 6, 2005) was a German and American nuclear physicist who, in addition to making important contributions to astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis | |||
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|2017: ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year." | File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|2017: ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year." | ||
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Revision as of 20:00, 15 August 2017
1876: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes uses continued fraction theory to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1939: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann dies. He proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1981: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Ayn Rand.
1982: Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand dies.
2017: The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling awarded Pulitzer Prize, declared "the most entertaining illustration of the year."