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||1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1691) | |||
||1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675) | |||
||1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1813) | |||
||1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (d. 1815) | |||
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel. | File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel. | ||
||1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878) | |||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1812: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1812: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'. | ||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1842: [[Wallace War-Heels]] rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions. | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1842: [[Wallace War-Heels]] rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions. | ||
||1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975) TV | |||
||1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. | |||
||Emil Weyr (d. January 25, 1894) was an Austrian mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry. | ||Emil Weyr (d. January 25, 1894) was an Austrian mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry. | ||
||1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850) | |||
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1915: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco. | |||
||1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003) | |||
||1921 – Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010) | |||
||1923 – Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]. | File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]. | ||
File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1941: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] develops new drug to stimulate [[Kingpin inclination]]. | File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1941: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] develops new drug to stimulate [[Kingpin inclination]]. | ||
1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899) | |||
File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game. | File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game. | ||
||Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов (d. January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death. | |||
||1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871) dysentary | |||
||1961 – In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. | |||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list. | ||
||1966 – Saul Adler, Belarusian-English microbiologist and parasitologist (b. 1895) | |||
||1993 – Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded. | |||
||1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1909) | |||
File:Black Brant.jpg|link=Norwegian rocket incident (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Norwegian rocket incident (nonfiction)|Norwegian rocket incident]]: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. | File:Black Brant.jpg|link=Norwegian rocket incident (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Norwegian rocket incident (nonfiction)|Norwegian rocket incident]]: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile. | ||
||2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral (b. 1906) | |||
||2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932) | |||
||2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939) | |||
||2014 – Heini Halberstam, Czech-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926) | |||
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Revision as of 10:28, 5 November 2017
1793: Engineer George Cayley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which simulate the flight of petrels. He will later forecast the emergence of the SOEP cartel.
1812: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.
1842: Wallace War-Heels rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1940: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") uses scrying engine techniques to pre-visualize the Wow! signal.
1941: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new drug to stimulate Kingpin inclination.
- 1947 – Al Capone, American gangster and mob boss (b. 1899)
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1995: The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.