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||1258 – Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | |||
||1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. | |||
||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) | |||
||1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer and author (d. 1907) | |||
||1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | |||
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | ||
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1900: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1900: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | ||
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. | ||
||1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927) | |||
||1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804) | |||
||1883 – Edith Clarke, American electrical engineer (d. 1959) | |||
||1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) | |||
||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) | |||
||Lew Kowarski (b. 1907, Saint Petersburg) was a naturalized French physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. | |||
||1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) | |||
||1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870) | |||
||Edward Hugh Hebern (d. February 10, 1952) was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption. | ||Edward Hugh Hebern (d. February 10, 1952) was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption. | ||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. | |||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | ||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]]. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]]. | ||
||1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. | |||
||2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | |||
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Revision as of 21:29, 25 November 2017
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.