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||1493 – Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541) | |||
||1569 – Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611) | |||
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician [[Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]] demonstrates integral [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]] for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). | |||
||1724 – Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. | |||
||1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828) | |||
||1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising. | |||
||1895 – Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990) | |||
||1904 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996) | |||
File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. | File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park. | ||
||1914 – James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005) | |||
||1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established. | |||
||1930 – Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (d. 1982) | |||
||1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. | |||
||1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. | |||
||1951 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009) | |||
||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (November 11, 1907 – February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. | ||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (November 11, 1907 – February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. | ||
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File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1933: [[Cantor Parabola]] warns that [[crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise. | File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1933: [[Cantor Parabola]] warns that [[crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise. | ||
||1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12. | |||
||1973 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) | |||
File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver. | File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver. | ||
||2014 – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (b. 1920) | |||
|File:800px-2005-06-27 - Smithsonian Scrimshaw Collection.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1935: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with [[crimes against mathematical constants]], according to [[Cantor Parabola]]. | |File:800px-2005-06-27 - Smithsonian Scrimshaw Collection.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1935: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with [[crimes against mathematical constants]], according to [[Cantor Parabola]]. | ||
Revision as of 21:14, 9 October 2017
1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1933: Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.
2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.