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||1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
||1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
||1793 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (d. 1831) traveller
||1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
||1842 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
||1847 – William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
||1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
||1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
||1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
||1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and theorist (d. 1958)
||1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
||1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
||1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
File:Abe Reles corpse.png|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] dies.
File:Abe Reles corpse.png|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] dies.
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
||1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
||1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
||1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
||1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
||1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|file=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
||1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
||1998 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1938)
||2013 – Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1944)
||2014 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (b. 1948) no pic
||2014 – Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1945)


|File:Cleopatra-dies-of-asp-bite-and-IBM-PC.png|link=Death of Cleopatra|[[Death of Cleopatra|Cleopatra dies]] of asp bite, according to IBM-PC.
|File:Cleopatra-dies-of-asp-bite-and-IBM-PC.png|link=Death of Cleopatra|[[Death of Cleopatra|Cleopatra dies]] of asp bite, according to IBM-PC.

Revision as of 11:23, 3 September 2017

  • Abe Reles corpse.png

    1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.

  • 1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

    1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

  • 1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

    1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

  • 1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

    1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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