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||1449 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394) | |||
||1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511) | |||
|File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]]. | |File:Geometers_program_medievel_pilgrimage.jpg|link=Pilgrimage|[[Pilgrimage|Geometers refactor medieval pilgrimage]]. | ||
||1666 – Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640) - executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London. | |||
File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter. | ||
File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | ||
||1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | |||
||1910 – Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000) - pencillin factory | |||
||1930 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851) | |||
||1930 – Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. | |||
||1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963) | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. | |||
||1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. | |||
||1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. | |||
||1968 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878) | |||
||1973 – A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado. | |||
||1974 – C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938) | |||
||1975 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886) | |||
||1980 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) | |||
||1981 – The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | |||
||1992 – David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917) | |||
||1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. | |||
||1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927) | |||
|File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge. | |File:Wumpuss-compass.jpg|link=Wumpus-compass|[[Wumpus-compass]] syndrome linked to [[Extract of Radium]] binge. | ||
Revision as of 12:44, 6 August 2017
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.