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File:Franz Anton Mesmer.jpg|link=Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|1734: Physician [[Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|Franz Mesmer]] born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis. | File:Franz Anton Mesmer.jpg|link=Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|1734: Physician [[Franz Mesmer (nonfiction)|Franz Mesmer]] born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis. | ||
||1790: Physician and soldier Moses Nichols dies ... American Revolution. Pic search | ||1790: Physician and soldier Moses Nichols dies ... American Revolution. Pic search. | ||
||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. He made the first successful measurement of a stellar parallax, though not to the first publication thereof. Pic search | ||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer. He made the first successful measurement of a stellar parallax, though not to the first publication thereof. Pic search. | ||
||1829: Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. Pic search | ||1829: Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire. Pic search. | ||
||1837: Anatole Mallet born ... mechanical engineer ... inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. Pic. | ||1837: Anatole Mallet born ... mechanical engineer ... inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. Pic. | ||
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File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1918: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]." | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1918: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]." | ||
||1923: Irving Millman born ... virologist and microbiologist. Pic search | ||1923: Irving Millman born ... virologist and microbiologist. Pic search. | ||
||1925: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic. | ||1925: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic. | ||
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File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1982: Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. | File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1982: Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. | ||
||1989: Karl Koch dies ... computer hacker. Pic search | ||1989: Karl Koch dies ... computer hacker. Pic search. | ||
||1992: Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. | ||1992: Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. | ||
||1993: Telford Taylor dies ... 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). | |||
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1994: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. | File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1994: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices. | ||
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1541: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nicolaus Copernicus publishes evidence that the staunchly geocentric House of Malevecchio has committed or financed a series of unsolved crimes against the heliocentric model.
1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.
2005: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.