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File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. | File:George Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. | ||
||1888: Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | ||1888: Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. Pic. | ||
||1900: W. Edwards Deming born ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||1900: W. Edwards Deming born ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pic. | ||
||1909: Kurt Schütte born ... mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic. | ||1909: Kurt Schütte born ... mathematician who worked on proof theory and ordinal analysis. The Feferman–Schütte ordinal, which he showed to be the precise ordinal bound for predicativity, is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. | ||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1939: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. | ||1939: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland. | ||
||1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. | ||1947: Captain Chuck Yeager of the United States Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.06 (700 miles per hour (1,100 km/h; 610 kn) over the high desert of Southern California and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. Pic . | ||
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1948: Musician and physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]]. | File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1948: Musician and physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]]. | ||
||1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic dies ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics | ||1960: Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic dies ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Pic. | ||
||1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba. | ||1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot flies over the island of Cuba and takes photographs of Soviet SS-4 Sandal missiles being installed and erected in Cuba. | ||
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||2010: Mathematician and academic Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg dies. He worked on differential geometry, in particular on closed geodesics. Pic. | ||2010: Mathematician and academic Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg dies. He worked on differential geometry, in particular on closed geodesics. Pic. | ||
||2011: Ashawna Hailey dies ... computer scientist and philanthropist. | ||2011: Ashawna Hailey dies ... computer scientist and philanthropist. Pic. | ||
||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2012: Gart Westerhout dies ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic. | ||
File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Blue City Sunset.jpg|link=Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue City Sunset (nonfiction)|Blue City Sunset]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
2016: Blue City Sunset voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
