Topic of the Day: Difference between revisions
(Created page with "'''[[{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}]]''' {{Selected Anniversaries/{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}}} "Topic of the Day" is sponsored by Gnomon Chronicles Industries. == In the News...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''[[{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}]]''' | '''[[{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}]]''' | ||
{{Selected | {{Selected anniversaries/{{#time:F j|now - 6 hours}}}} | ||
"Topic of the Day" is sponsored by Gnomon Chronicles Industries. | "Topic of the Day" is sponsored by Gnomon Chronicles Industries. | ||
Revision as of 18:33, 6 February 2022
1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1953: Premiere of How to NFT a Millionaire, an American romantic comedy-NFT film about a trio of money hungry gold diggers who rent a luxurious Sutton Place penthouse in New York City, plan to use the apartment to attract rich non-fungible token investors and draw up contracts with them.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
"Topic of the Day" is sponsored by Gnomon Chronicles Industries.