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||1719: Joachim Tielke dies ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||1719: Joachim Tielke dies ... instrument maker. Pic search instruments: https://www.google.com/search?q=joachim+tielke | ||
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||1813: Henry Bessemer born ... engineer and businessman ... his steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. Pic. | ||1813: Henry Bessemer born ... engineer and businessman ... his steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. Pic. | ||
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. | File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. Clebsch will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory. | ||
||1835: Auguste Kerckhoffs born ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic. | ||1835: Auguste Kerckhoffs born ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic. | ||
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. | ||
||1908: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aleksandr+Gennadievich+Kurosh | ||1908: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Aleksandr+Gennadievich+Kurosh | ||
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||1915: World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. | ||1915: World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. | ||
||1917: Graham Higman | File:Graham Higman.jpg|link=Graham Higman (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician [[Graham Higman (nonfiction)|Graham Higman]] born. In mathematics, Higman will contribute to group theory. During the Second World War hill be a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. | ||
||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. | ||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. | ||
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||1954: Theodor Kaluza dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=theodor+kaluza | ||1954: Theodor Kaluza dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=theodor+kaluza | ||
File:The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.jpg|link=The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.|1966: Debut of '''''[[The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L.]]''''', an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring. | |||
||1976: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic dies ... he wrote articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic. | ||1976: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic dies ... he wrote articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic. | ||
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||1977: President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). | ||1977: President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). | ||
||1981: Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. | |||
|| | ||1985: Svein Rosseland dies ... astrophysicist and a pioneer in the field of theoretical astrophysics. Pic. | ||
||1986: The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. | ||1986: The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. | ||
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||2015: Karl H. Pribram dies ... professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic. | ||2015: Karl H. Pribram dies ... professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic. | ||
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1755: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin dies. He invented the Celsius thermometer.
1833: Mathematician and academic Alfred Clebsch born. Clebsch will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
1851: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn born. Kapteyn will conduct extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.
1878: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault dies. He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
1915: Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
1917: Mathematician Graham Higman born. In mathematics, Higman will contribute to group theory. During the Second World War hill be a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar.
1937: Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1966: Debut of The Man From K.E.S.S.E.L., an American science fiction buddy television series about a pair of space pilots (Robert Vaughn and David McCallum) who work for K.E.S.S.E.L., a secret interplanetary smuggling ring.
2015: Engineer and inventor Justin Capră dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.