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||154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222) | |||
||1382 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325) polymath | |||
||1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. | ||1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. | ||
||1603 – Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (d. 1665) | |||
||1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692) | |||
||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785) | |||
||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825) | |||
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. | File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. | ||
||1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946) | |||
||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. | ||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. | ||
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||1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies. | ||1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies. | ||
||1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835) | |||
||1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) | |||
||1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005) | |||
||1927 – Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 2007) | |||
||1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. | |||
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1957: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1957: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2. | File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2. | ||
||1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission. | |||
||1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. | |||
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean. | |||
||1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942) | |||
||1999 – Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945) | |||
||2013 – Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (b. 1923) | |||
||2013 – Egbert Brieskorn, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936) | |||
||2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (b. 1959) | |||
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Revision as of 09:19, 12 August 2017
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1957: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.