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||1415 | ||1415: Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. Pic. | ||
||1423 | ||1423: Antonio Manetti born ... mathematician and architect. Pic. | ||
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 | ||1535: Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Pic. | ||
||1686 | ||1686: Antoine de Jussieu born ... biologist and academic. No pic. | ||
|| | ||1781: Thomas Stamford Raffles born ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic. | ||
||1817 | ||1817: Albert von Kölliker born ... anatomist and physiologist. Pic. | ||
||1818 | ||1818: Adolf Anderssen born ... chess player. Pic. | ||
||Sophie Blanchard | ||1819: Sophie Blanchard dies ... aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents. Known throughout Europe for her ballooning exploits, Blanchard entertained Napoleon Bonaparte, who promoted her to the role of "Aeronaut of the Official Festivals", replacing André-Jacques Garnerin. On the restoration of the monarchy in 1814 she performed for Louis XVIII, who named her "Official Aeronaut of the Restoration". Pic. | ||
||Daniel Coit Gilman | ||1831: Daniel Coit Gilman born ... educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the third president of the University of California, as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S." | ||
||Sir Alfred Bray Kempe | ||1849: Sir Alfred Bray Kempe born ... mathematician best known for his work on linkages and the four colour theorem. Pic. | ||
||1854 | ||1854: Georg Ohm dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||Friedrich Fichter | ||1869: Friedrich Fichter ... professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel. His main field of interest was electrochemistry. Pic. Death date uncertain 1952. | ||
||1885 | ||1885: Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. | ||
||1892 | ||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. | ||
||Hermann Lorenz Künneth | ||1892: Hermann Lorenz Künneth born ... mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem. Pic. | ||
||1903 | ||1903: Hugo Theorell born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||Lothar Collatz | ||1910: Lothar Collatz born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. | File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. | ||
||Lawrence Hargrave | ||1915: Lawrence Hargrave dies ... engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1926: Hartley Rogers Jr. born ... mathematician who worked in recursion theory, and was a professor in the Mathematics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Rogers equivalence theorem is named after him. Pic: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=hartley-rogers&pid=175517283 DOB: http://news.mit.edu/2015/hartley-rogers-professor-emeritus-mathematics-dies-0722 | ||
||1944 | ||1944: Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial. Pic. | ||
||1944 | ||1944: The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. | ||
||1962 | ||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. | ||
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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 | ||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 04:42, 26 August 2018
1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus dies. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the follwing decades.
1913: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
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.