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||1585: A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. | ||1585: A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. | ||
||1607: Pierre de Fermat born ... lawyer and mathematician. | ||1607: Pierre de Fermat born ... lawyer and mathematician. Pic. *** INCORRECT DOB? *** | ||
||1673: Regnier de Graaf dies ... physician and anatomist. | ||1673: Regnier de Graaf dies ... physician and anatomist. Pic. | ||
File:Robert Fulton.jpg|link=Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|1807: [[Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|Robert Fulton]]'s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. | File:Robert Fulton.jpg|link=Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|1807: [[Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|Robert Fulton]]'s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. | ||
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||1987: Harold R. McCluskey dies ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | ||1987: Harold R. McCluskey dies ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | ||
||1993: Feng Kang dies ... mathematician. | ||1993: Feng Kang dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Feng+Kang+mathematician | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, predicts the [[GW170817 (nonfiction)|GW170817 gravitational wave signal]] observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, predicts the [[GW170817 (nonfiction)|GW170817 gravitational wave signal]] observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. | ||
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1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.
1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.
1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, predicts the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.
2017: The GW170817 gravitational wave signal is observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. It is the first gravitational wave event observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Ringmaster confirms the GW170817 gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.