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||1714 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (b. 1633)
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1780:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
||1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
||1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
||1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
||1855 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
||1862 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
||1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
||1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
||1892 – John Alcock (RAF officer), captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
||1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
||1894 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
||1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
||1906 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
||1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
||1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
||1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Extreme moustaches
||1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
||1933 – Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
||1934: First flight of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM.
||1934: First flight of semi-rigid airship SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM.
||1936 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
||1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) Perfusion pump w/ Charles Lindbergh
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  
File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1975: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.  
||1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
||1983 – Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
||1992 – Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (b. 1903)
||1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
||2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
||2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
||2015 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (b. 1925)


File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília.
File:Electric S'mores in Brasília.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|2016: [[Electric S'mores]] opens for business in Brasília.

Revision as of 19:44, 6 September 2017

  • 1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 2016: Electric S'mores opens for business in Brasília.

    2016: Electric S'mores opens for business in Brasília.

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