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||1789: French Revolution: Assignats were paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in France from 1789 to 1796, during the French Revolution, to address imminent bankruptcy. They were backed by the value of properties formerly held by the Catholic Church, which were confiscated, on the motion of Mirabeau, by the Assembly on 2 November 1789, and the crown lands, which had been taken over by the nation on 7 October. Pic. | |||
File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic. | File:George Boole.jpg|link=George Boole (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and philosopher [[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]] born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic. | ||
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||1860: "Soapy" Smith born ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||1860: "Soapy" Smith born ... con artist and gangster in the Old West. His most famous scam, the prize package soap sell racket, earned him the sobriquet of "Soapy", which remained with him to his death. Although he traveled and operated his confidence swindles all across the western United States, he is most famous for having a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver and Creede, Colorado, and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. Pic. | ||
||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada | ||1863: Theodore Judah dies ... engineer ... rail Sierra Nevada. Pic. | ||
||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1885: Harlow Shapley born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1894: Alexander Lippisch born ... aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. His most famous designs are the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor and the Dornier Aerodyne. Pic. | ||1894: Alexander Lippisch born ... aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. His most famous designs are the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor and the Dornier Aerodyne. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Raphael Mitchel Robinson born ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1911: Raphael Mitchel Robinson born ... mathematician. He will work on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
||1911: Herbert G. MacPherson born ... nuclear engineer and deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He contributed to the design and development of nuclear reactors and in the opinion of Alvin Weinberg he was "the country's foremost expert on graphite". Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/4779/chapter/30 | |||
||1912: Bertrand Goldschmidt born ... chemist. He is considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue. | ||1912: Bertrand Goldschmidt born ... chemist. He is considered one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue. | ||
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||1916: Adriaan van Wijngaarden born ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||1916: Adriaan van Wijngaarden born ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||
||1917: Li Minhua born ... physicist and expert in solid mechanics. Pic. | |||
||1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. | ||1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920. | ||
||1924: David E. Muller born ... mathematician, computer scientist, and academic. He will invent the Muller C-element, a device used to implement asynchronous circuitry in electronic computers, and the Muller automata, an automaton model for infinite words. In geometric group theory Muller is known for the Muller–Schupp theorem, joint with Paul Schupp, characterizing finitely generated virtually free groups as finitely generated groups with context-free word problem. Pic search. | |||
||1929: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic. | ||1929: Richard Edward Taylor born ... physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics." Pic. | ||
||1932: Melvin Schwartz born ... physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Pic. | ||1932: Melvin Schwartz born ... physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. Pic. | ||
||1936: Martin Lowry dies ... chemist and academic. He developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Pic. | |||
||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. | ||1936: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. | ||
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||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. | ||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. | ||
||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). | ||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Pic. | ||
||1957: The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. | ||1957: The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. | ||
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||1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. | ||1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. | ||
||1966: Peter Debye dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1961: James Thurber born ... humorist and cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1966: Peter Debye dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch dies ... mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension. | ||1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besikovitch dies ... mathematician. He will work on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension. Pic. | ||
||1984: István Fáry dies ... mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949. Pic. | ||1984: István Fáry dies ... mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight line embedding in 1948, and the Fary–Milnor theorem lower-bounding the curvature of a nontrivial knot in 1949. Pic. | ||
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||1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. | ||1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. | ||
||1990: Eliot Porter dies ... photographer, chemist, and academic. | ||1990: Eliot Porter dies ... photographer, chemist, and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1993: Đuro Kurepa dies ... mathematician. Pic | ||1993: Đuro Kurepa dies ... mathematician. Pic | ||
||2002: | ||2002: William Howard Stein dies ... chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ... with Christian Boehmer Anfinsen and Stanford Moore, for their work on ribonuclease and for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule. Pic. | ||
||2005: Rutherford "Gus" Aris dies ... chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||2005: Rutherford "Gus" Aris dies ... chemical engineer, control theorist, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | ||
||2006: Adrien Douady dies ... mathematician. | ||2006: Adrien Douady dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||2009: Amir Pnueli dies ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||2009: Amir Pnueli dies ... computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient. He worked on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. Pic. | ||
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||2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. His latest research was in the area of computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He, at the time of his death, held the Marshall distinguished professor of mathematics chair at Purdue University, and was also a professor of computer science and industrial engineering. He is known for Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. His latest research was in the area of computational and algorithmic algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||
||2015: Roy Dommett dies ... scientist and engineer ... rockets | ||2015: Roy Dommett dies ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.