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File:Demosthenes.jpg|link=Demosthenes (nonfiction)|322 BC: Athenian politician and orator [[Demosthenes (nonfiction)|Demosthenes]] takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies. | File:Demosthenes.jpg|link=Demosthenes (nonfiction)|322 BC: Athenian politician and orator [[Demosthenes (nonfiction)|Demosthenes]] takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies. | ||
||1492 | ||1492: Piero della Francesca dies ... mathematician and painter. | ||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to communicate with [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]]. | File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to communicate with [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]]. | ||
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||1654: The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city. Over a hundred people were killed and thousands were wounded. About 30 tonnes (29.5 long tons; 33.1 short tons) of gunpowder were stored in barrels in a magazine in a former Clarissen convent in the Doelenkwartier district. Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Today, the explosion is remembered primarily for killing Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius, and destroying almost all his works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft#Delft_Explosion | ||1654: The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city. Over a hundred people were killed and thousands were wounded. About 30 tonnes (29.5 long tons; 33.1 short tons) of gunpowder were stored in barrels in a magazine in a former Clarissen convent in the Doelenkwartier district. Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Today, the explosion is remembered primarily for killing Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius, and destroying almost all his works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft#Delft_Explosion | ||
||1692 | ||1692: The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips. | ||
File:Nicolas Malebranche.jpg|link=Nicolas Malebranche (nonfiction)|1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Nicolas Malebranche (nonfiction)|Nicolas Malebranche]] synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] in every aspect of the world. | File:Nicolas Malebranche.jpg|link=Nicolas Malebranche (nonfiction)|1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Nicolas Malebranche (nonfiction)|Nicolas Malebranche]] synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] in every aspect of the world. | ||
||1725 | ||1725: Étienne Louis Geoffroy born ... pharmacist and entomologist. | ||
||1773: America's first insane asylum opens. | |||
|| | ||1792: Christian Gmelin born ... chemist and pharmacist. | ||
|| | ||1799: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. | ||
|| | ||1801: Carl August von Steinheil born ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1812: Ascanio Sobrero born ... chemist. Ne discovered, in 1847, nitroglycerine. He initially called it "pyroglycerine", and warned vigorously against its use in his private letters and in a journal article, stating that it was extremely dangerous and impossible to handle. Pic. | ||
||Henri Édouard Tresca | ||1814: Henri Édouard Tresca born ... mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | ||
||1847 | ||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. | ||
||Robert Stephenson | ||1859: Robert Stephenson dies ... early railway and civil engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. | ||
||1860 | ||1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||
||Rikitarō Fujisawa | ||1861: Rikitarō Fujisawa born ... mathematician. During the Meiji era he was instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. Pic. | ||
||1865 | ||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | ||
||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic. | |||
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||1914 | ||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||
||1928 | ||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||
||1931 | ||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. | ||
||1933 | ||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||
||1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast. | ||1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast. | ||
||1964 | ||1964: The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. | ||
||1965 | ||1965: Paul Hermann Müller dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Katharine Burr Blodgett | ||1979: Katharine Burr Blodgett dies ... scientific researcher. She was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926. After receiving her master's degree, she was hired by General Electric, where she invented low-reflectance "invisible" glass. | ||
||1982: dies: Bruce H. Mahan was a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in the fundamentals of chemical reactions and devotion to chemistry education. | ||1982: dies: Bruce H. Mahan was a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley known for his work in the fundamentals of chemical reactions and devotion to chemistry education. | ||
||1994 | ||1994: The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. | ||
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | ||
||2007 | ||2007: Kisho Kurokawa dies ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower. | ||
|| | ||2011: Dennis Ritchie dies ... computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941) | ||
||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | |||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to communicate with Aleister Crowley.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1995: Steganographic analysis of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals three terabytes of encrypted data.