Template:Selected anniversaries/July 17: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. | |||
||1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. | ||1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. | ||
Revision as of 08:51, 29 October 2017
1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1913: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2015: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.