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||1516: Hanno the Elephant dies ... the pet white elephant given by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici) at his coronation. Hanno, an Asian elephant, came to Rome in 1514 with the Portuguese ambassador Tristão da Cunha and quickly became the Pope's favorite animal. Hanno died two years later from complications of a treatment for constipation with gold-enriched laxative. Pic. | |||
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him. | File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him. | ||
||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. | ||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||
||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. | ||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=caspar+wessel | ||
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments. | File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|Bill of Rights]] amendments. | ||
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||1815: Giovanni Caselli born ... physicist, inventor and priest. He is the inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine. The world's first practical operating facsimile machine ("fax") system put into use was by Caselli. Pic. | ||1815: Giovanni Caselli born ... physicist, inventor and priest. He is the inventor of the pantelegraph (a.k.a. Universal Telegraph or "all-purpose telegraph"), the predecessor of the modern fax machine. The world's first practical operating facsimile machine ("fax") system put into use was by Caselli. Pic. | ||
||1835: Gian Domenico Romagnosi dies ... physicist, economist, and jurist. Electromagnetism experiments. Pic. | |||
||1851: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval born ... physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. | ||1851: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval born ... physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. | ||
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||1859: Walter Hunt dies ... mechanic. He was born in Martinsburg, New York. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine, safety pin, a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street sweeping machinery, and the ice plough. Pic. | ||1859: Walter Hunt dies ... mechanic. He was born in Martinsburg, New York. Through the course of his work he became renowned for being a prolific inventor, notably of the lockstitch sewing machine, safety pin, a forerunner of the Winchester repeating rifle, a successful flax spinner, knife sharpener, streetcar bell, hard-coal-burning stove, artificial stone, street sweeping machinery, and the ice plough. Pic. | ||
||1860: Alicia Boole Stott born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1860: Alicia Boole Stott born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1867: Frank Lloyd Wright born ... architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater. | ||1867: Frank Lloyd Wright born ... architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater. | ||
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File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator. | File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator. | ||
||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. | ||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. Pic. | ||
||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist. | ||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist. Pic. | ||
||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics. | ||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics. | ||
||1916: Francis Crick born ... biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1916: Francis Crick born ... biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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||1920: Augusto Righi dies ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic. | ||1920: Augusto Righi dies ... physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. Pic. | ||
||1925: Gury | ||1925: Gury Marchuk born ... prominent Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Pic. | ||
||1930: Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||1930: Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||
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||1936: Robert W (Bob) Floyd born ... computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing. In one isolated paper he introduced the important concept of error diffusion for rendering images, also called Floyd–Steinberg dithering (though he distinguished dithering from diffusion). A significant achievement was pioneering the field of program verification using logical assertions with the 1967 paper Assigning Meanings to Programs. This was an important contribution to what later became Hoare logic. Pic: https://cs.stanford.edu/memoriam/professor-robert-w-floyd | ||1936: Robert W (Bob) Floyd born ... computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph, Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a sequence, and his work on parsing. In one isolated paper he introduced the important concept of error diffusion for rendering images, also called Floyd–Steinberg dithering (though he distinguished dithering from diffusion). A significant achievement was pioneering the field of program verification using logical assertions with the 1967 paper Assigning Meanings to Programs. This was an important contribution to what later became Hoare logic. Pic: https://cs.stanford.edu/memoriam/professor-robert-w-floyd | ||
||1941: Daniel Vorländer dies ... chemist who synthesized most of the liquid crystals known until his retirement in 1935. An interesting discovery was that amongst the slimy liquid crystals were many soap and soap-like compounds. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Vorländer | |||
||1942: World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. | ||1942: World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. | ||
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File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1955: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] born. He will invent the World Wide Web. | File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1955: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] born. He will invent the World Wide Web. | ||
||1967: Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. | ||1967: Six-Day War: The USS ''Liberty'' incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. | ||
||1972: Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron born ... hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his Diplom thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Boris+Floricic+hacker | |||
||1972: Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. | ||1972: Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo. | ||
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||1979: Reinhard Gehlen dies ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||1979: Reinhard Gehlen dies ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||
||1997: Karen Wetterhahn dies ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. | ||1997: Karen Wetterhahn dies ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic. | ||
||1998: Maria Reiche born ... mathematician and archaeologist. | ||1998: Maria Reiche born ... mathematician and archaeologist. Pic. | ||
||2000: Jeff MacNelly dies ... cartoonist ... Shoe. | ||2000: Jeff MacNelly dies ... cartoonist ... Shoe. | ||
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||2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. | ||2004: The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882. | ||
||2011: Anatole Abragam dies ... physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic. | ||2011: Anatole Abragam dies ... physicist who wrote ''The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism'' and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic. | ||
||2012: Charles E. M. Pearce dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||2012: Charles E. M. Pearce dies ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to probabilistic and statistical modelling and analysis; his applied interests included queuing theory, road traffic, telecommunications, and urban planning. Pic. | ||
||2014: Alexander Imich dies ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+imich | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:48, 6 February 2022
1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.
1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.