Template:Selected anniversaries/January 9: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 37: | Line 37: | ||
File:Peter_Twinn.jpg|link=Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and entomologist [[Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|Peter Twinn]] born. During the Second World War, he will be the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. | File:Peter_Twinn.jpg|link=Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and entomologist [[Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|Peter Twinn]] born. During the Second World War, he will be the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. | ||
||1917: Luther D. Bradley dies ... illustrator and political cartoonist associated with the Chicago Daily News ... known for strong anti-war sentiments, opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Pic. | ||1917: Luther D. Bradley dies ... illustrator and political cartoonist associated with the Chicago Daily News ... known for strong anti-war sentiments, opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Pic. | ||
| Line 63: | Line 61: | ||
||1951: Abraham Cressy Morrison dies ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic. | ||1951: Abraham Cressy Morrison dies ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic. | ||
File:Yeast of Eden.jpg|link=Yeast of Eden|1955: Premiere of '''''[[Yeast of Eden]]''''', an American period drama film about a wayward young baker (James Dean) who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the yeast of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. | File:Yeast of Eden.jpg|link=Yeast of Eden|1955: Premiere of '''''[[Yeast of Eden]]''''', an American period drama film about a wayward young baker (James Dean) who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the yeast of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. | ||
| Line 83: | Line 79: | ||
||2014: First fight of DF-ZF hyper-glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF Pic. | ||2014: First fight of DF-ZF hyper-glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF Pic. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Latest revision as of 17:57, 7 February 2022
1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1848: Astronomer Caroline Herschel dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.)
1916: Mathematician and entomologist Peter Twinn born. During the Second World War, he will be the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School.
1918: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud dies. He invented the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films.
1923: Engineer, inventor, and pilot Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1942: Mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki dies. Różycki worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.
1955: Premiere of Yeast of Eden, an American period drama film about a wayward young baker (James Dean) who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the yeast of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.
1989: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone dies. He contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.