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File:Hugo Grotius.jpg|link=Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|1644: [[Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|Hugo Grotius]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]] as a violation of natural law. | File:Hugo Grotius.jpg|link=Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|1644: [[Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|Hugo Grotius]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]] as a violation of natural law. | ||
File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''. | File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''. | ||
||1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874) | |||
||1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910) | |||
||1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915) | |||
||1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951) | |||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1878: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat. | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1878: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat. | ||
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. He will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). | File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. He will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). | ||
||1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818) | |||
||1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. | |||
||1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001) | |||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | ||
||1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. | |||
||1961 – USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca. | |||
||1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. | |||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate. | |||
||1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900) | |||
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1973: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] dies. He designed the Harvard Mark I computer. | File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1973: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] dies. He designed the Harvard Mark I computer. | ||
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. | |||
||1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) | |||
||2016 – John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928) | |||
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Revision as of 18:02, 11 August 2017
1644: Hugo Grotius condemns crimes against mathematical constants as a violation of natural law.
1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio.
1878: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein born. He will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1932: George Eastman dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1965: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken dies. He designed the Harvard Mark I computer.
1974: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.