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||1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716) | |||
||1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897) | |||
||1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787) | |||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | ||
||1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | |||
||1920 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006) | |||
||1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. | |||
||1927 – Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic | |||
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1962: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]], the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. | ||
||1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveso_disaster | |||
||1997 – In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. | |||
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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Revision as of 07:30, 30 June 2017
1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1938: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn uses combinatorics, logic, and Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.