Template:Selected anniversaries/January 11: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:


File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1569: First recorded [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery]] in England.
File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1569: First recorded [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery]] in England.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1570: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to predict winning [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery numbers]].
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1570: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to predict winning [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery numbers]].
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1638: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1638: Scientist and bishop [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] born. He will question explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grow in the ground.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1711: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] collaborates with [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] on design of new [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1711: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] collaborates with [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] on design of new [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1757: engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] born. He will design the first Panopticon.
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1757: engineer and naval architect [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] born. He will design the first Panopticon.
||1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist (d. 1869)
||1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
||1788 – William Thomas Brande, English chemist and academic (d. 1866)
||1800 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (d. 1895)
||Giuseppe Battaglini (b. 11 January 1826) was an Italian mathematician.
||1845 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1912)
||1872 – G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic (d. 1956)
||1889 – Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (d. 1938)
||1895 – Laurens Hammond, American engineer and businessman, founded the Hammond Clock Company (d. 1973)
||1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
||1917 – The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
||1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born.  He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1934: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] born.  He will go on to invent the quicksort algorithm, and make other contributions to [[Computer science (nonfiction)|computer science]].
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|New class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] targets vulnerable quicksort routines.
 
||1941 – Emanuel Lasker, German mathematician, philosopher, and chess player (b. 1868)
 
||1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
 
||1962 – Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
 
||1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
 
||1988 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
 
||1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 
||2012 – Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian physicist and academic (b. 1980)
 
||2012 – Steven Rawlings, English astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1961)
 
||2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935)
 
||2015 – Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1918)
 
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|2017: New class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] targets vulnerable quicksort routines.
</gallery>
</gallery>

Revision as of 18:17, 5 November 2017

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/January_11&oldid=24872"