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File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1656: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] publishes the first of his ''Lettres provinciales'', in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1656: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] publishes the first of his ''Lettres provinciales'', in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.


||1719: John Landen born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+landen
||1719: John Landen born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search.


||1723: Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein born ... doctor, physicist, and engineer. From 1753 to the end of his life he was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector four times. He is especially known for his investigations of the use of electricity in medicine and the first attempts at mechanical speech synthesis. Pic.
||1723: Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein born ... doctor, physicist, and engineer. From 1753 to the end of his life he was a professor at the University of Copenhagen where he served as rector four times. He is especially known for his investigations of the use of electricity in medicine and the first attempts at mechanical speech synthesis. Pic.
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File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:Geissler in a Geissler tube.jpg|link=Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|1862: Glassblower, physicist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Johann Geißler]] demonstrates an advanced version of the [[Geissler tube (nonfiction)|Geissler tube]] which acts as a simple [[scrying engine]], using low pressure gas-discharge luminescence as a remote-input-output modulator.


||1862: Frank Shuman born ... inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.
||1862: Frank Shuman born ... inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.
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||1912: The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
||1912: The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.


||1918: Gertrude B. Elion born ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=gertrude+b.+elion
||1918: Gertrude B. Elion born ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search.


||1919: Hans Hass born ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic.
||1919: Hans Hass born ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic.


File:Walter Frederick Morrison.jpg|link=Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|1920: Businessman [[Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|Walter Frederick Morrison]] born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
File:Walter Frederick Morrison.jpg|link=Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|1920: Businessman [[Walter Frederick Morrison (nonfiction)|Walter Frederick Morrison]] born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.
||1923: Harold Grad born ... applied mathematician. His work specialized in the application of statistical mechanics to plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics. Pic.


||1924: Michael James Lighthill born ... applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. Pic.
||1924: Michael James Lighthill born ... applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. Pic.
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||1937: Orso Mario Corbino dies ... physicist and politician. Pic.
||1937: Orso Mario Corbino dies ... physicist and politician. Pic.


||1937: Stanton J. Peale born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic seach yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Stanton+J.+Peale
||1937: Stanton J. Peale born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic seach.


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1941: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1941: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
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||1960: The bathyscaphe ''USS Trieste'' breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
||1960: The bathyscaphe ''USS Trieste'' breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: Author and alleged time-traveller [[John Brunner]] uses a bespoke Lee and Turner color [[scrying engine]] to detect and publicize [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1969: Jon Hal Folkman dies ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.
||1969: Jon Hal Folkman dies ... mathematician, a student of John Milnor, and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. Pic: diagram.


||1971: Fritz Feigl dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fritz+Feigl
||1971: Fritz Feigl dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search.


|File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|1973: United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
|File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|1973: United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.


File:Werner Fenchel.jpg|link=Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician, academic, and crime-fighter [[Werner Fenchel (nonfiction)|Werner Fenchel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use nonlinear programming techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Big Trouble on Little Tatooine 2.jpg|link=Big Trouble on Little Tatooine|1986: Premiere of '''''[[Big Trouble on Little Tatooine]]''''', a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.


||1987: Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov dies ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic.
||1987: Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov dies ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Pic.
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||1991: Herbert Fröhlich dies ... physicist. Fröhlich proposed a theory of coherent excitations in biological systems known as Fröhlich coherence. A system that attains this state of coherence is known as a Fröhlich condensate. Pic.
||1991: Herbert Fröhlich dies ... physicist. Fröhlich proposed a theory of coherent excitations in biological systems known as Fröhlich coherence. A system that attains this state of coherence is known as a Fröhlich condensate. Pic.


||1997: Astronomer and academic Roger John Tayler dies. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+John+Tayler
||1997: Astronomer and academic Roger John Tayler dies. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. Pic search.


File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
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|link: http://www.thepumphandle.org/2011/07/13/33-hours-3-toxic-releases-1-fa/#.XLNAvuhKhaQ
|link: http://www.thepumphandle.org/2011/07/13/33-hours-3-toxic-releases-1-fa/#.XLNAvuhKhaQ
|link: https://nsc.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/system-failure-case-studies/sfcs-2015-04-14-deadlyexposure-presentation.pdf?sfvrsn=ad4eecf8_2
|link: https://nsc.nasa.gov/docs/default-source/system-failure-case-studies/sfcs-2015-04-14-deadlyexposure-presentation.pdf?sfvrsn=ad4eecf8_2
File:Tequila Sunrise.jpg|link=Tequila Sunrise (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Tequila Sunrise (nonfiction)|Tequila Sunrise]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2016: Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov dies ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic.
||2016: Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov dies ... theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic.

Latest revision as of 12:12, 23 January 2022

  • 1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.

    1656: Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales, in which he humorously attacks casuistry and accuses Jesuits of moral laxity, his tone combining the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world.

  • 1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

    1805: Inventor Claude Chappe dies. He invented and developed a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.

  • 1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.

    1862: Mathematician David Hilbert born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.

  • 1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

    1898: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger dies. He invented the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which was critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

  • 1920: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

    1920: Businessman Walter Frederick Morrison born. Morrison will invent the Frisbee. The first version, a cake pan purchased for a nickle and sold for a quarter, will be known as the Flyin' Cake Pan.

  • 1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

    1941: Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

  • 1986: Premiere of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine, a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.

    1986: Premiere of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine, a comedy-adventure film starring starring Kurt Russell, and the first major motion picture in the "Big Trouble in the Star Wars Franchise" series.

  • 2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.

    2003: A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.

  • 2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Liddy was implicated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Later, along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.

    2007: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt dies. Liddy was implicated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Later, along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt plotted the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.

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