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||635 – K'inich Kan Bahlam II, Mayan king (d. 702)
||635: K'inich Kan Bahlam II born ... Mayan king.


||1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.
||1430: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to raise the Siege of Compiègne.


||1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
||1498: Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.


||1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1682)
||1606: Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1617 – Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (d. 1692)
||1617: Elias Ashmole born ... astrologer and politician.


||1691 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (b. 1622)
||1691: Adrien Auzout dies ... astronomer and instrument maker.


||1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
||1701: After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.


File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.


||1718 – William Hunter, Scottish-English anatomist and physician (d. 1783)
||1718: William Hunter born ... anatomist and physician.


||1734 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (d. 1815)
||1734: Franz Mesmer born ... physician and astrologer.


||Manuel John Johnson, FRS (b. 23 May 1805) was a British astronomer.
||1805: Manuel John Johnson born ... astronomer.


||1829 – Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.
||1829: Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire.


||1837 – Anatole Mallet, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1919)
||1837: Anatole Mallet born ... mechanical engineer and inventor.


||1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German pilot and engineer (d. 1896)
||1848: Otto Lilienthal born ... pilot and engineer.


||1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1963)
||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1857 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.


||Georges Henri Halphen (d. 23 May 1889) was a French mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.
||1889: Georges Henri Halphen dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.


||1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
||1908: John Bardeen born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1915 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (d. 2014)
||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare.
 
||1915: Pierre-Émile Martin dies ... engineer who adapted the steelmaking process by using the open-hearth regenerative furnace invented by Charles William Siemens and Friedrich Siemens (1856), now known as the Siemens-Martin process. The Siemens' idea was to capture heat from exhaust gases in chambers flanking the furnace containing fire-bricks. When the flow is changed to preheat the input gases using recycled energy stored in the bricks, huge fuel savings result. Pic.


File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] born.  He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] born.  He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
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File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1918: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]."
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1918: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]."


||1923 – Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist (d. 2012)
||1923: Irving Millman born ... virologist and microbiologist.


||Joshua Lederberg (b. May 23, 1925) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.
||1925: Joshua Lederberg dies ... molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Pic.


||1934 – Robert Moog, electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005)
||1934: Robert Moog born ... electronic engineer and inventor of the Moog synthesizer.


||1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
||1939: The U.S. Navy submarine ''USS Squalus'' sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.


||1940 – Cora Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
||1940: Cora Sadosky born ... mathematician and academic (d. 2010).


||1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
||1945: World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.


||1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.
||1948: Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.


||1960 – Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (b. 1870)
||1960: Georges Claude dies ... engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting.


File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1982: Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1982: Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.


||1989 – Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)
||1989: Karl Koch dies ... computer hacker.


||1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.
||1992" Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions.


File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1994: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] dies.  He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1994: [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] dies.  He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.  


||1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
||1995" The first version of the Java programming language is released.
 
||2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.


||2015 – Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (b. 1933)
||2002: The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.


||2015 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928)
||2015: Alicia Nash dies ... physicist and engineer.


||2015: John Forbes Nash, Jr. dies ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


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Revision as of 15:47, 15 August 2018

  • 1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

    1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

  • 1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

    1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

  • 1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

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