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||1880: Kenneth Edgeworth born ... astronomer. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s- observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt. Pic. | ||1880: Kenneth Edgeworth born ... astronomer. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s- observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt. Pic. | ||
||1903: Richard Jordan Gatling dies ... engineer, invented the Gatling gun. | ||1903: Richard Jordan Gatling dies ... engineer, invented the Gatling gun. Pic. | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | ||
||1903: Giulio Natta | ||1903: Giulio Natta born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. | ||1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. Pic. | ||
||1921: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky born ... aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic. | ||1921: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky born ... aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic. | ||
||1926: James Alexander "Sandy" Green born ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic: https:// | ||1926: James Alexander "Sandy" Green born ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Alexander+"Sandy"+Green | ||
||1931: Otto Wallach | ||1931: Otto Wallach dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1935: Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom. With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar. | ||1935: Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom. With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar. Pic. | ||
||1936: In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. | ||1936: In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. Pic. | ||
||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic. | ||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic. | ||
||1966: Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. | ||1966: Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. Pic. | ||
||1985: Tjalling Koopmans dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1985: Tjalling Koopmans dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1987: Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. | ||1987: Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. Pic. | ||
||1993: World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand. | ||1993: World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand. Pic. | ||
||1995: The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts. | ||1995: The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts. | ||
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | ||
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||2017: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev dies ... theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic. | ||2017: Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev dies ... theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods in the quantization of non-abelian gauge field theories, including the introduction (with Victor Popov) of Faddeev–Popov ghosts. Pic. | ||
||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. | ||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lester+Randolph+Ford+Jr. | ||
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1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.
1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.
1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."
