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||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | ||1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed. | ||
||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||
||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic. | ||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic. | ||
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||1785: Claude-Louis Navier born ... physicist and engineer. Pic: bust. | ||1785: Claude-Louis Navier born ... physicist and engineer. Pic: bust. | ||
||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. | ||1793: Jean Claude Eugène Péclet born ... physicist and academic ... The Péclet number is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1814: François Coignet born ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. Pic. | |||
||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. | ||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic. | ||
||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author. | ||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author. Pic. | ||
||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | ||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | ||
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File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] dies. | ||
File: | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1845: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays. | ||
||1846: Ira Remsen dies ... chemist and academic, co-discovered saccharine. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1865: Heinrich Lenz (Emil Lenz) dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1873: Egon Schweidler born ... physicist. He pointed out (in 1899) the statistical nature of the radioactive decay or the magnetic deflection of beta radiation as fast electrons. His predicted variations (1905) of the ionization radiation formed in the end a large number of theoretical and experimental investigations. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1878: Claude Bernard dies ... physiologist and academic. Bernard was among the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'', and the associated concept of homeostasis. Pic. | ||
||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic. | ||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic. | ||
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||1885: Hardy Cross born ... structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. The method was in general use from c. 1935 until c. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hardy+Cross | ||1885: Hardy Cross born ... structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. The method was in general use from c. 1935 until c. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hardy+Cross | ||
||1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya | File:Sofya_Kovalevskaya.jpg|link=Sofia Kovalevskaya (nonfiction)|1891: Mathematician and physicist [[Sofia Kovalevskaya (nonfiction)|Sofia Kovalevskaya]] dies. Kovalevskaya made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. | ||
||1901: Richard | ||1901: Richard Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory. Pic. | ||
File:Walter Houser Brattain.jpg|link=Walter Houser Brattain (nonfiction)|1902: Physicist and academic [[Walter Houser Brattain (nonfiction)|Walter Houser Brattain]] born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect." | File:Walter Houser Brattain.jpg|link=Walter Houser Brattain (nonfiction)|1902: Physicist and academic [[Walter Houser Brattain (nonfiction)|Walter Houser Brattain]] born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect." | ||
||1903: Waldemar Hoven born ... German Nazi physician. Pic. | |||
||1903: Helmut Hönl born ... theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and the understanding of atomic and molecular structure. Pic. | ||1903: Helmut Hönl born ... theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and the understanding of atomic and molecular structure. Pic. | ||
||1907: Lew Kowarski born ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. | ||1907: Lew Kowarski born ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science. Pic. | ||
||1911: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh born ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||1911: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh born ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||
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File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865. | File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865. | ||
||1913: Arnold | File:Arnold Flammersfeld.jpg|link=Arnold Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|1913: Nuclear physicist [[Arnold Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|Arnold Flammersfeld]] born. Flammersfeld will work on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. | ||
||1923: Wilhelm Röntgen dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1923: Wilhelm Röntgen dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1924: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove born ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | ||1924: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove born ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic. | ||
||1934: Asteroid Toutatis is first sighted (as object 1934 CT) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle, but is lost soon afterward; it will be rediscovered in 1989. Toutatis is an elongated, stony asteroid and slow rotator, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo and Alinda group, approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. Pics. | |||
||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic. | ||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic. | ||
||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. | ||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. Pic. | ||
||1948: Egon Schweidler, dies ... physicist. He pointed out (in 1899) the statistical nature of the radioactive decay or the magnetic deflection of beta radiation as fast electrons. His predicted variations (1905) of the ionization radiation formed in the end a large number of theoretical and experimental investigations. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1952: Henry Drysdale Dakin dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+drysdale+dakin | ||
File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. | File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines. | ||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition | ||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens; it includes Look Mickey, which features his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. Pic. | ||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. | ||
||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic | ||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic. | ||
||1994: Fritz John dies ... mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | |||
||1994: Fritz John dies ... | ||1994: Mathetician Fritz John dies ... contributions to partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | ||
||1996: IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. | ||1996: IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time. | ||
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||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | ||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | ||
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1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1891: Mathematician and physicist Sofia Kovalevskaya dies. Kovalevskaya made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
1902: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1913: Nuclear physicist Arnold Flammersfeld born. Flammersfeld will work on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.