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File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] born.
File:Emanuel Swedenborg.png|link=Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic [[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]] born.
||Ernst Eduard Kummer (b. 29 January 1810) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics
||1819 – Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
||1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
||1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1915)
||1863 – The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
||1881 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (d. 1975)
||1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
||1888 – Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies.
||1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American engineer and broadcaster, founded the DuMont Television Network (d. 1965)
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
||1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
||1921 – Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999)
||1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
||1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key.
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key.
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2009: New study links [[Evil bit release]] with [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2009: New study links [[Evil bit release]] with [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
||2015 – Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist, author, and academic (b. 1937)
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Revision as of 14:52, 29 October 2017

  • 1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

    1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

  • 1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

    1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

  • 1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

    1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

  • 1944: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.

    1944: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.

  • 1997: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation refuses to disclose private key.

    1997: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation refuses to disclose private key.

  • 2009: New study links Evil bit release with capacitor plague.

    2009: New study links Evil bit release with capacitor plague.

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