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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.


||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist.
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Friedrich+Geitel


||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.
||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.


||1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
||1888: Frits Zernike born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


|File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] endures bullet wound, survives shootout.
||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist.


||1896 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)
||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer.


||1903 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974)
||1925: Cyrus Derman born ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.


||Cyrus Derman (b. July 16, 1925) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.
||1926: Irwin Rose born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
 
||1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].

Revision as of 09:54, 8 March 2019

  • 1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

    1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

  • 1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

    1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.

    1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.

  • 1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

    1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

  • 1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."

    1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

  • 2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

  • 2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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