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||1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian astronomer, biologist and theologian (d. 1274) | |||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake. | ||
||1723 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (d. 1762) | |||
||1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and meteorologist (d. 1799) | |||
||1754 – Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803) | |||
||1781 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (d. 1826) | |||
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' engages and sinks the Union warship USS ''Housatonic''. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship. | ||
||1874 – Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796) | |||
||1888 – Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969) | |||
||1891 – Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1965) | |||
||1890 – Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (d. 1962) | |||
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1890: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on Navier–Stokes equations. | File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1890: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on Navier–Stokes equations. | ||
||Christopher Latham Sholes (d. February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and along with Frank Haven Hall, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. | |||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]]. | ||
||1905 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1977) | |||
||1918 – Jacqueline Ferrand, French mathematician (d. 2014) | |||
||1921 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1930 – Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1933 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (d. 1997) | |||
||1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862) | |||
||1942 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (d. 1989) | |||
||1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution. | |||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' increases risk of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||The Derrynaflan Chalice is an 8th- or 9th-century chalice, that was found as part of the Derrynaflan Hoard of five liturgical vessels. The discovery was made | ||1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. | ||
||1980: The Derrynaflan Chalice is an 8th- or 9th-century chalice, that was found as part of the Derrynaflan Hoard of five liturgical vessels. The discovery was made near Killenaule, County Tipperary in Ireland. | |||
||1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros. | |||
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]]. | File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|2003: [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on [[high-energy literature]]. | ||
Revision as of 20:37, 29 October 2017
1600: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley engages and sinks the Union warship USS Housatonic. This is the first known instance of a submarine engaging and sinking a warship.
1890: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on Navier–Stokes equations.
1891: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel born. He will contribute to axiomatic set theory, and publish a biography of George Cantor.
1964: Publication of The Hal Jordan Playbook increases risk of crimes against mathematical constants.
2003: George Plimpton publishes first in prize-winning series of articles on high-energy literature.
2012: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn dies. He made contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.