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||1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. | |||
||1683 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, invented the Celsius thermometer (d. 1755) | |||
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] dies. He designed the first Panopticon. | ||
||1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1811) | |||
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1835: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1835: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1852 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish (d. 1921) | |||
||1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time. | |||
||1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. | |||
||1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time. | |||
||1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) | |||
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | ||
||1918 – Lloyd Quarterman, African American chemist (d. 1982) | |||
||1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll was given as 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300. | |||
||1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. | |||
||1932 – Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 1994) | |||
||1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. | |||
||1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | |||
||1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | |||
||2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". | |||
||2006 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914) | |||
||2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries. | |||
||2013 – Gerald E. Brown, American physicist and academic (b. 1926) | |||
||2013 – Tim Samaras, American engineer and storm chaser (b. 1957) | |||
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Revision as of 16:40, 2 October 2017
1831: engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1835: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.