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||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic. | ||1709: Jacques de Vaucanson born ... inventor and artist who was responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata. He also was the first man to design an automatic loom and built the first all-metal lathe. Pic. | ||
||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search | ||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search. | ||
||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring). | ||
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||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic. | ||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic. | ||
||1910: Karl Hugo Strunz born ... mineralogist. He is best known for creating the Nickel-Strunz classification, the ninth edition of which was published together with Ernest Henry Nickel. Pic search | ||1908: Telford Taylor born ... American lawyer best known for his role as Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. Pic (impressive). | ||
||1910: Karl Hugo Strunz born ... mineralogist. He is best known for creating the Nickel-Strunz classification, the ninth edition of which was published together with Ernest Henry Nickel. Pic search. | |||
||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. Pic. | ||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. Pic. | ||
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||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. | ||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. | ||
||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search | ||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search. | ||
||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
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||1993: Chaim Leib Pekeris dies ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675 | ||1993: Chaim Leib Pekeris dies ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675 | ||
||1997: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs dies ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search | ||1997: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs dies ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search. | ||
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. He is known as "the father of information theory". | File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. He is known as "the father of information theory". | ||
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1588: Physician and occultist Johann Weyer dies. Weyer criticized the Malleus Maleficarum and witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities; he declared that not only were examples of magic largely incredible, but that the crime of witchcraft was literally impossible, so that anyone who confessed to the crime was likely to be suffering some mental disturbance.
1755: Artist and social critic William Hogarth’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752.
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.
1961: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm techniques which use hydrogen isotopes to diagnose and remediate crimes against chemical constants.
1967: Mathematician and APTO field engineer 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".
2016: Signed first edition of Eye Foot purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known APTO Artist-Engineer from New Minneapolis, Canada" in a charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against biochemical constants.
2020: Physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson dies. Johnson computed orbital mechanics as a NASA employee which were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights; she also helped pioneer the use of computers to perform these tasks.