Template:Selected anniversaries/May 23: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 63: | Line 63: | ||
||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. | ||
||1953: Agathe Uwilingiyimana born ... chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda ... assassinated 1994. Pic. | |||
||1960: Georges Claude dies ... engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting. Pic. | ||1960: Georges Claude dies ... engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting. Pic. | ||
| Line 70: | Line 72: | ||
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 dies ... computer hacker. | ||1989: Karl Koch dies ... computer hacker. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+koch+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. | ||
Revision as of 07:17, 7 April 2019
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.
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."
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.