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||1791: Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people. | ||1791: Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people. | ||
||1794: John Roebuck dies ... chemist and businessman. No DOB. Pic search | ||1794: John Roebuck dies ... chemist and businessman. No DOB. Pic search. | ||
||1827: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic. | ||1827: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic. | ||
||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive. Pic search | ||1839: Ephraim Shay born ... engineer, invented the Shay locomotive. Pic search. | ||
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1845: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. | ||
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||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist. Pic. | ||1894: Georges Lemaître born ... priest, astronomer, and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist. Pic search | ||1910: Frank Olson born ... chemist and microbiologist. Pic search. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1911: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for his unpatriotic opinions. | ||
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File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||1956: Bodo von Borries dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. | ||1956: Bodo von Borries dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. | ||
||1958: Henri Farman dies ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic. | ||1958: Henri Farman dies ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic. | ||
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||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1980: Boris Delaunay dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1982: Mihai Pătrașcu born ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic. | ||
||1984: Yakov Geronimus dies ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg | ||1984: Yakov Geronimus dies ... mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.technion.ac.il/hat/people/pix/geronimus.jpg | ||
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||1998: Michael James Lighthill dies ... applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. Pic. | ||1998: Michael James Lighthill dies ... applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. Pic. | ||
||2003: David Christopher Kelly dies by suicide... scientist and authority on biological warfare, anthrax. Pic. | |||
||2003: Walter Zapp dies ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic. | ||2003: Walter Zapp dies ... inventor, invented the Minox. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 02:33, 21 March 2021
1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2018: Angry Feller stolen from the Louvre in daytime raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.