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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]].
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]].


||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.


||Samuel Molyneux FRS (16 July 1689), son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct.[1] In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland.
||1689: Samuel Molyneux born ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden


||1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800)
||1714: Marc René, marquis de Montalembert born ... engineer and author.
 
||1739: Charles François de Cisternay du Fay dies ... chemist. He discovered the existence of two types of electricity and named them "vitreous" and "resinous" (later known as positive and negative charge respectively). He noted the difference between conductors and insulators, calling them 'electrics' and 'non-electrics' for their ability to produce contact electrification. He also discovered that alike-charged objects would repel each other and that unlike-charged objects attract. Pic.


File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.


||Hans Friedrich Geitel (b. 16 July 1855 in Braunschweig) was a German physicist.
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist.


||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.
||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.

Revision as of 17:50, 31 August 2018

  • 1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

    1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

  • 1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

    1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.

    1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.

  • 1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

    1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

  • 1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."

    1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

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