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||303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
||303: Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.


||1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
||1582: With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.


File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.
File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.


||1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782)
||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... engineer.


||1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (d. 1796)
||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware.


||Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (b. 24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.


||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (d. 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.  
||1799: eorg Christoph Lichtenberg dies ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.  


||1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
||1803: In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.


||1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
||1809: London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.


File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  


||1812 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
||1812: Étienne-Louis Malus dies ... physicist and mathematician.


||1815 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
||1815: Robert Fulton dies ... engineer.


||1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
||1825: Thomas Bowdler dies ... physician and philanthropist.


||John Philip Holland (b. 24 February 1841) was an Irish engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic.
||1841: John Philip Holland born ... engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic.


||1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
||1848: Andrew Inglis Clark born ... engineer, lawyer, and politician.


||1856 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
||1856: Nikolai Lobachevsky dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.


||1854 – A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
||1854: A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.


||Felix Bernstein (b. 24 February 1878), mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.
||1878: Felix Bernstein born ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.


||1898 – Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (d. 1983)
||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer.


||1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
||1917: World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.


||1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
||1920: The Nazi Party is founded.


||1933 – Judah Folkman, American physician and biologist (d. 2008)
||1921: Frederic Gordon Foster born ... computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. No pic, none.


||1939 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist.
 
||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist.


File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
||1968: Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.


||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies.
||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies.

Revision as of 16:26, 27 August 2018

  • 1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.

    1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.

  • 1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

    1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

  • 1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

    1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

  • 1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Hugo Steinhaus uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".

    2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".

  • 1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .

    1963: The Flying Diner announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New Minneapolis, Canada .

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