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File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. | ||
||1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666) | |||
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | |||
||1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678) | |||
||1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710) | |||
||1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871) | |||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] correlates [[transdimensional corporations]] with [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] correlates [[transdimensional corporations]] with [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics. | File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics. | ||
||1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) | |||
||1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. | |||
||1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935) | |||
||1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (d. 1973) | |||
||1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. | |||
||1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007) | |||
||1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) | |||
||Robert Hofstadter (b. February 5, 1915) was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | |||
||1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871) | |||
||1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. | |||
||1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006) | |||
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]]. | File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: A [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered]]. | ||
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event. | File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event. | ||
||1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. | |||
||1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894) | |||
||1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925) | |||
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America. | File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America. | ||
||2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) | |||
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Revision as of 08:45, 29 October 2017
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page correlates transdimensional corporations with crimes against mathematical constants.
1843: Rudolf Clausius publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on thermodynamics.
1958: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
