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||49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. | |||
||1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) | |||
||1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616) | |||
||1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, and diplomat (d. 1812) | |||
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | ||
File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy. | File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy. | ||
||1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860) | |||
||1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752) | |||
||1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925) | |||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | ||
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company. | |||
||1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941) | |||
||1877 – Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948) | |||
||1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970) | |||
||1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836) | |||
||1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | |||
||1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003) | |||
||1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004) | |||
||1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) | |||
||1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. | |||
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. | File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. | ||
||1941 – Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875) | |||
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. | File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. | ||
||1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890) | |||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour. | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour. | ||
||1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894) | |||
||1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. | |||
||1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925) | |||
||1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) | |||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2007: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2007: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''. | ||
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|2007: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' attends debut homage performance by [[Rhizolith Group]]. | |||
|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|2007: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' attends debut homage performance by [[Rhizolith Group]]. | |||
||2012 – Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924) | |||
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Revision as of 21:30, 22 October 2017
1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.
2007: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on The Dark Side of the Moon.