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||1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. | |||
File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1631: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | File:Cesare Cremonini.jpg|link=Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|1631: Philosopher and academic [[Cesare Cremonini (nonfiction)|Cesare Cremonini]] dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. | ||
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File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1814: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company. | File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1814: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company. | ||
||1824 – Agustín de Iturbide, Mexican general and emperor (b. 1783) | |||
||1838 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (b. 1785) | |||
||1843 – Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. | |||
||1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings. | ||1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings. | ||
||1857 – Stefano Franscini, Swiss statistician and politician (b. 1796) | |||
||1865 – Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer (d. 1933) | |||
||1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939) | |||
||1878 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1847) | |||
||1881 – Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher (d. 1963) | |||
||1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972) | |||
||1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957) | |||
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat [[Niles Cartouchian]] foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord. | File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat [[Niles Cartouchian]] foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord. | ||
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory. | File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory. | ||
||1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969) | |||
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1895: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] says that [[Extract of Radium]] gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1895: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] says that [[Extract of Radium]] gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation. | ||1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation. | ||
||1920 – Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (d. 2015) Cold fusion | |||
||1921 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | |||
||1929 – Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H. | |||
||1947 – Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated. | |||
||1947 – Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated. | |||
||1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. | ||1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. | ||
||1977 – The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).[1] | |||
||1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development. | ||1981 – In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development. | ||
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File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance. | ||
||2007 – Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentinian cartoonist (b. 1944) | |||
||2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) | |||
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Revision as of 20:14, 27 October 2017
1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1632: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac discovers a new method of constructing magic squares, which he will soon use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat Niles Cartouchian foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1895: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane says that Extract of Radium gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1984: New type of Lorenz system displays artificial intelligence, forecasts crimes against mathematical constants up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.