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||1529 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581) | |||
||1715 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787) | |||
||1717 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640) | |||
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1841: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1841: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. | |||
||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design. | |||
||1885 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954) | |||
||1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. | |||
||1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. | |||
||1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | |||
||1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. | |||
||1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. | |||
||1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges. | |||
||1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. | |||
||1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. | |||
||1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. | |||
||1976 – David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900) | |||
||1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. | |||
||1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907) | |||
||1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. | |||
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]]. | File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]]. | ||
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a [[AESOP|vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere]]. | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a [[AESOP|vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere]]. | ||
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | |||
||2012 – Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919) | |||
||2014 – Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920) Airboy | |||
||2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. | |||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2017: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he trafficks in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]]. | |File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2017: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he trafficks in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]]. | ||
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Revision as of 11:40, 17 September 2017
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
