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||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. No DOB. Pic. | ||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search | ||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search. | ||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | ||
||1749: John Stevens born ... lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry service from his estate in Hoboken. He was influential in the creation of U.S. patent law. Pic. | ||1749: John Stevens born ... lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry service from his estate in Hoboken. He was influential in the creation of U.S. patent law. Pic. | ||
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | ||
||1834: Gilbert Blane dies ... physician who, when head of the Navy Medical Board, required (1795) a diet including lemon juice on navy vessels, which virtually eliminated scurvy and its significant lost manpower due to sickness of sailors. The value of citrus juice had been established by James Lind, with his Treatice on Scurvy (1754). Blane also improved sanitary conditions in the Navy by providing supplies of soap and medicines, and was involved with designing rules that were precursors to modern quarantine conditions. He required every surgeon in the service to make regular returns or journals of the state of health and disease onboard their ship. In 1829, he established a prize medal as an incentive for the surgeon producing the best journal. Pic. | ||1834: Gilbert Blane dies ... physician who, when head of the Navy Medical Board, required (1795) a diet including lemon juice on navy vessels, which virtually eliminated scurvy and its significant lost manpower due to sickness of sailors. The value of citrus juice had been established by James Lind, with his Treatice on Scurvy (1754). Blane also improved sanitary conditions in the Navy by providing supplies of soap and medicines, and was involved with designing rules that were precursors to modern quarantine conditions. He required every surgeon in the service to make regular returns or journals of the state of health and disease onboard their ship. In 1829, he established a prize medal as an incentive for the surgeon producing the best journal. Pic. | ||
||1877: Giovanni Santini dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Both as a practical and theoretical astronomer, Santini made the Observatory of Padua famous. He determined the latitude of Padua, and assisted the astronomical and geodetic service of Italy by making observations in longitude. He acquired his greatest repute by his calculations of the orbital disturbances during the period from 1832-1852 caused by the great planets on the comet of Biela. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Santini | ||1877: Giovanni Santini dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Both as a practical and theoretical astronomer, Santini made the Observatory of Padua famous. He determined the latitude of Padua, and assisted the astronomical and geodetic service of Italy by making observations in longitude. He acquired his greatest repute by his calculations of the orbital disturbances during the period from 1832-1852 caused by the great planets on the comet of Biela. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Santini | ||
||1878: Leopold Löwenheim born ... mathematician and logician. Pic search | ||1878: Leopold Löwenheim born ... mathematician and logician. Pic search. | ||
||1883: Edward Sabine dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier ... Sabine led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe, and much of his life was devoted to their direction, and to analyzing their observations. Pic. | ||1883: Edward Sabine dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier ... Sabine led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe, and much of his life was devoted to their direction, and to analyzing their observations. Pic. | ||
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||1886: Chemist Henri Moissan reports that he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||1886: Chemist Henri Moissan reports that he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1888: Paul Niggli born ... crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Pic search | ||1888: Paul Niggli born ... crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Pic search. | ||
||1904: Frank Scott Hogg born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1904: Frank Scott Hogg born ... astronomer and academic, pioneered in the study of spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets. Pic search. | ||
||1909: The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. | ||1909: The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. | ||
||1911: Bronisław Żurakowski born ... pilot and engineer. | ||1911: Bronisław Żurakowski born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1911: Frederic Calland Williams born ... co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems. Pic search | ||1911: Frederic Calland Williams born ... co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems. Pic search. | ||
||1911: Ernst Witt born ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | ||1911: Ernst Witt born ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | ||
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||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||
||1919: Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet dies ... botanist who invented chromatography. His last name is Russian for both "color" and " flowering ." Pic. | |||
||1921: Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. born ... mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hoggatt.html | ||1921: Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. born ... mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hoggatt.html | ||
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||1931: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō dies ... Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Pic. | ||1931: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō dies ... Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Pic. | ||
||1932: Adelaide Ames dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search | ||1932: Adelaide Ames dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1936: Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | ||1936: Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | ||
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||1937: Robert Coleman Richardson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1937: Robert Coleman Richardson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1943: Karl Landsteiner dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1943: Karl Landsteiner dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1944: World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. | ||1944: World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. | ||
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||2011: Österplana 065 discovered ... an Ordovician fossil meteorite found in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden. Österplana 065 is believed to have originated from a larger asteroid, and belongs to a meteorite type that does not presently fall on the Earth. Pic. | ||2011: Österplana 065 discovered ... an Ordovician fossil meteorite found in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden. Österplana 065 is believed to have originated from a larger asteroid, and belongs to a meteorite type that does not presently fall on the Earth. Pic. | ||
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1274: Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2020: Accidental self portrait @ 8:28 pm.