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File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] dies. | File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] dies. | ||
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. | File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations. | ||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]]. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]]. | ||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. | ||
||1866 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | |||
||1889 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804) | |||
||1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded. | |||
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1901: [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. | |||
||1921 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868) | |||
||1927 – Robert Noyce, American inventor and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (d. 1990) | |||
||1969 – Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | |||
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars. | File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars. | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|2007: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | |||
||1997 – Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1921) | |||
|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|2007: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | |||
||2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. | |||
||2014 – Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1941) | |||
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Revision as of 12:58, 22 October 2017
1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
![1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.](/w/images/thumb/0/0d/Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg/90px-Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg)
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.