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File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
||1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1783)
||1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (d. 1859)
||1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1878)
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
||1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1946)
||1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
||1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
||1906 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
||Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (d. 31 March 1920) was a German mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced.
||1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
||1945 – World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
||1947 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist and economist (d. 2011)
|1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1985: [[Pin Man]] publishes his autobiography.  He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|1985: [[Pin Man]] publishes his autobiography.  He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.


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File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies.  He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies.  He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|2017: [[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|2017: [[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
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Revision as of 18:14, 4 November 2017

  • 1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.

    1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.

  • 1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.

    1877: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot dies. He introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.

  • 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
  • 1985: Pin Man publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.

    1985: Pin Man publishes his autobiography. He will quickly receive both praise and death threats.

  • 2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.

    2001: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull dies. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.

  • 2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

    2003: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter dies. He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.

  • 2017: SOEP cartel threatens to shoot stomach oil smugglers on sight.

    2017: SOEP cartel threatens to shoot stomach oil smugglers on sight.

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