Template:Selected anniversaries/August 7: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
||1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1869: Mathematician Mary Frances Winston Newson born. Pic. | ||1869: Mathematician Mary Frances Winston Newson born. Pic. | ||
| Line 52: | Line 50: | ||
||1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | ||1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. | ||
File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. | File:Philippe_Petit.jpg|link=Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]]. | ||
| Line 60: | Line 56: | ||
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | ||
||1985: Gábor Szegő dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html | ||1985: Gábor Szegő dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html | ||
| Line 76: | Line 70: | ||
||2015: Frances Oldham Kelsey dies ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention. Pic. | ||2015: Frances Oldham Kelsey dies ... pharmacologist and physician ... thalidomide intervention. Pic. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] entering Mars orbit. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates twenty-first anniversary of [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] entering Mars orbit. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 11:03, 7 February 2022
1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1957: Stokes nuclear weapon test conducted by the United States.
1958: Cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley dies. Yardley founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.
1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
1975: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars.
2010: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder dies. He contributed to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He also was responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates twenty-first anniversary of Viking 2 entering Mars orbit.