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||1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. | |||
||1423 – Antonio Manetti, Italian mathematician and architect (d. 1497) | |||
File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades. | File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades. | ||
||1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. | |||
||1686 – Antoine de Jussieu, French biologist and academic (d. 1758) | |||
||Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (b. 6 July 1781) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. | |||
||1817 – Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (d. 1905) | |||
||1818 – Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (d. 1879) | |||
||1854 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1789) | |||
||1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. | |||
||1892 – Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. | |||
||1903 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | |||
||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician | ||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician | ||
||1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. | |||
||1944 – The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. | |||
||1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. | |||
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1989: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis Canadian]] Arts Festival. | File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1989: [[Rhizolith Group]] performs at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis Canadian]] Arts Festival. | ||
File:EFF Logo.svg.png|link=Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|1990: The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]] is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. | File:EFF Logo.svg.png|link=Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|1990: The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]] is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. | ||
File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1990: Signed original edition of ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]]. | File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1990: Signed original edition of ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]]. | ||
||2003 – The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively. | |||
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Revision as of 15:01, 29 October 2017
1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.
1989: Rhizolith Group performs at New Minneapolis Canadian Arts Festival.
1990: The Electronic Freedom Foundation is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
1990: Signed original edition of Alice Beta Paragliding sells for one and a half million dollars in charity auction for Electronic Freedom Foundation.