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||1689: General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. | ||1689: General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enea_Silvio_Piccolomini_Duomo_Siena.jpg | ||
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". | ||
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||1765: Samuel Klingenstierna dies ... mathematician, scientist, and academic. He was instrumental in the invention of the Achromatic Telescope. Pic. | ||1765: Samuel Klingenstierna dies ... mathematician, scientist, and academic. He was instrumental in the invention of the Achromatic Telescope. Pic. | ||
||1773: Amédée-François Frézier dies ... mathematician, engineer, and explorer. | ||1773: Amédée-François Frézier dies ... mathematician, engineer, and explorer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1776: Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. | ||1776: Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution. Pic. | ||
Simon Ritter von Stampfer (26 October 1792 (according to other sources 1790)), in Windisch-Mattrai, Archbishopric of Salzburg today called Matrei in Osttirol, Tyrol – 10 November 1864 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor. His most famous invention is that of the stroboscopic disk which has a claim to be the first device to show moving images. | Simon Ritter von Stampfer (26 October 1792 (according to other sources 1790)), in Windisch-Mattrai, Archbishopric of Salzburg today called Matrei in Osttirol, Tyrol – 10 November 1864 in Vienna) was an Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor. His most famous invention is that of the stroboscopic disk which has a claim to be the first device to show moving images. | ||
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File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1849: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1849: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory. | ||
||1874: Martin Lowry born ... chemist and academic. | ||1874: Martin Lowry born ... chemist and academic. He developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Pic. | ||
||1911: Shiing-Shen Chern born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. | ||1911: Shiing-Shen Chern born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. | ||
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||1930: Walter Feit born ... mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. Pic. | ||1930: Walter Feit born ... mathematician who worked in finite group theory and representation theory. Pic. | ||
||1930: Waldemar Haffkine born ... physician and microbiologist. | ||1930: Waldemar Haffkine born ... physician and microbiologist. Pic. | ||
||1936: The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation. | ||1936: The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation. | ||
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1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1848: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi publishes landmark paper on the application of elliptic functions to the computation and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1922: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1923: Clock Head 2 remembers mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz as "a genius, and a true friend."
1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.
1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1972: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt remembers aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky as "a genius, and a true friend."
1983: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski dies. He was a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
2017: Lend a Hand voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.