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||File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1527:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Arabic to Latin.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.


||Jean-Daniel Colladon (b. 15 December 1802) was a Swiss physicist. Light Pipe.
||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe.


File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||August Yulevich Davidov (b. December 15, 1823) was a Russian mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.
||1823: August Yulevich Davidov dies ... mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with partial derivatives, definite integrals, and the application of probability theory to statistics, and textbooks on elementary mathematics. Pic.


File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1832: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1832: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.


||Charles Augustus Young (b. December 15, 1834) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic.
||1834: Charles Augustus Young born ... one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed a solar flare with a spectroscope on 3 August 1872, and also noted that it coincided with a magnetic storm on Earth. Pic.


File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.


||1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
||1838: Émile Léger dies ... mathematician ...  only published four papers on mathematics,[1] but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.
 
||1852: Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)


||1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
||1855: Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)


File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.


||1861 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)
||1861: Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)


||1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)
||1863: Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)


||1869 – Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)
||1869: Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)


||1878 – Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
||1878: Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)


||File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1887: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
||File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1887: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
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File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."


||1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.


||1894 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)
||1894: Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)


||1913 – Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (d. 2001)
||1913: Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (d. 2001)


||Anatole Abragam (b. December 15, 1914) was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic.
||Anatole Abragam (b. December 15, 1914) was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic.


||1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1916: Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)


||Leo Königsberger (d. 15 December 1921) was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject. Pic.
||Leo Königsberger (d. 15 December 1921) was a German mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject. Pic.


||1924 – Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
||1924: Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)


||Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (b. 15 December 1929) was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.
||1929: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov born ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.


||Ludwig Schlesinger (d. 15 December 1933) was a German mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Pic.
||1933: Ludwig Schlesinger ... mathematician known for the research in the field of linear differential equations. Pic.


||1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
||1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
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File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".


||1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
||1960: Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.


||1961 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
||1961: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.


||1965 – Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
||1965: Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.


||1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
||1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet


||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (d. 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.
||1970: Theodore Samuel Motzkin dies ... mathematician.


File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.


||1971 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)
||1971: Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1979: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1979: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."


||1993 – William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
||1993: William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)


||Siegfried Flügge (d. 15 December 1997) was a German theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project).  Pic.
||1997: Siegfried Flügge dies ... theoretical physicist and made contributions to nuclear physics and the theoretical basis for nuclear weapons. He worked in the German Uranverein (nuclear weapons project).  Pic.


File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down.


||2003 – George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
||2003: George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)


||Boris Isaac Korenblum (d. 15 December 2011) was a Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic.
||2011: Boris Isaac Korenblum dies ... mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic.


||2015 – Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)
||2015: Harry Zvi Tabor dies ... physicist and engineer.


|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2016: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] appears in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2016: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] appears in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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Revision as of 19:08, 14 August 2018

  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • János Bolyai.jpg

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 1979: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

    1979: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

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