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||1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | |||
||1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) | |||
||1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (d. 1934) | |||
||1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (d. 1945) | |||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | ||
||Nikolai Vasilievich Bugaev (d. June 11, 1903) was a prominent Russian mathematician | |||
||1909 – Natascha Artin Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer (d. 2003) | |||
||1910 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997) | |||
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | ||
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method. | File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method. | ||
||1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. | |||
||1937 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895) | |||
||1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012) | |||
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to [[Thefixisin]]. | File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to [[Thefixisin]]. | ||
||1965 – Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and academic (b. 1908) | |||
||1968 – Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. | |||
||1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. | |||
||2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. | |||
||2004 – Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. | |||
||2008 – The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | |||
||2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1947) | |||
||2014 – Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1955) | |||
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Revision as of 12:26, 29 October 2017
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.