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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]].


||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online.
||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online.
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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.


File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''.
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search.
 
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Friedrich+Geitel


||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.
||1876: Alfred Stock born ... a German inorganic chemist. He did pioneering research on the hydrides of boron and silicon, coordination chemistry, mercury, and mercury poisoning. The German Chemical Society's Alfred-Stock Memorial Prize is named after him. Pic.
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||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist. Pic.
||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist. Pic.
||1902: Neuropsychologist Alexander Luria born ... pioneer of modern neuropsychological assessment. He developed an extensive and original battery of neuropsychological tests during his clinical work with brain-injured victims of World War II, which are still used in various forms. Pic.


||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
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||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:Trinity detonation.jpg|link=Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1945: [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity nuclear weapon test]]: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:Trinity detonation.jpg|link=Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1945: [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity nuclear weapon test]]: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."


||1958: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks dies ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic.
||1958: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks dies ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic.
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||1994: Julian Schwinger dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Pic.
||1994: Julian Schwinger dies ... theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Pic.


||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Cocke+RISC
||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search.
 
||2004: Frank Farmer born ... physicist, and a pioneer in the application of physics to medicine, particularly in relation to the practical aspects of cancer treatment by radiation. Pic search.
 
||2005: Mark Chorvinsky dies ... magician and author, FX, Forteana. Pic search. http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2020/10/when-i-interviewed-mark-chorvinsky.html


File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
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||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.
||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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Latest revision as of 10:12, 7 February 2022

  • 1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

    1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.

    1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.

  • 1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.

    1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

  • 1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.

    1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.

  • 2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

    2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.

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