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||1759 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (d. 1813) | |||
||1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723) | |||
||1771 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (b. 1678) | |||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy. | ||
||1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington. | |||
||1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906) | |||
||1872 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. | |||
||1901 – René Dubos, French-American biologist and author (d. 1982) | |||
||1901 – Louis Kahn, American architect, designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum | |||
and the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974) | |||
||1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) | |||
||1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. | |||
||1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. | |||
||1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. | |||
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] equipped with [[Gnomon algorithm]] control system. | File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] equipped with [[Gnomon algorithm]] control system. | ||
||1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes. | |||
||1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. | |||
||1971 – The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert. | |||
||1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | |||
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1973: [[John Brunner]] accuses [[Killer Poke]] of infecting [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]] with [[Extract of Radium]]. | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1973: [[John Brunner]] accuses [[Killer Poke]] of infecting [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]] with [[Extract of Radium]]. | ||
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1986: The Soviet Union launches its [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]]. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years. | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1986: The Soviet Union launches its [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]]. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years. | ||
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | |File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | ||
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1987: New class of [[Fantasy Voronoi diagrams]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to [[Computation (nonfiction)|compute]] record-breaking profits. | File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1987: New class of [[Fantasy Voronoi diagrams]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to [[Computation (nonfiction)|compute]] record-breaking profits. | ||
||2013 – Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (b. 1970) | |||
||2013 – David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936) | |||
||2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers. | |||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
||2017 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930) | |||
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Revision as of 12:52, 1 October 2017
1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
- And the Bangladesh Parliament Building (d. 1974)
1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.
1973: John Brunner accuses Killer Poke of infecting "Hello World" program with Extract of Radium.
1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.