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||1698 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1759) | |||
||1791 – Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people. | |||
||1794 – John Roebuck, English chemist and businessman (b. 1718) | |||
||1839 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, invented the Shay locomotive (d. 1916) | |||
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | ||
||1588 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (b. 1489) | |||
||1894 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (d. 1966) | |||
||1910 – Frank Olson, American chemist and microbiologist (d. 1953) | |||
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | ||
File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | File:Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer [[Henri Poincaré (nonfiction)|Henri Poincaré]] dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics. | ||
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File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. | |||
||1975 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations. | |||
||1980 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890) | |||
||2003 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905) | |||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2015: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage. | ||
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Revision as of 11:59, 15 July 2017
1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2015: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.