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||1240 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165)
||1240: Ibn Arabi dies ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic.


||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703)
||1643: Jean Chardin born ... jeweler and explorer. Pic.


File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.


File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1724: Mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] helps fugitive and alleged thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] escape thief takers.
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
 
||1785: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius dies ... chemist and mineralogist. Wallerius will be regarded as the founder of agricultural chemistry, mainly based on the significance of his widely disseminated work ''Agriculturae fundamenta chemica''. Pic.
 
||1835: Eugenio Beltrami born ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. Pic.
 
||1841: Jules Violle born ... physicist and academic. Pic search.
 
||1852: The astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. Pic.
 
||1886: Marcel Riesz born .. mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. Pic search.
 
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: English engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
 
||1914: Eddie Chapman born ... spy.


File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.  
||1915: Raphael Meldola dies ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic.


||1841 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (d. 1923)
||1916: Christopher Strachey (b. 16 November 1916) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design. Pic.


||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
File:Derek Taunt.jpg|link=Derek Taunt (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician [[Derek Taunt (nonfiction)|Derek Taunt]] born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.


||1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
||1922: Gene Amdahl born ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer. Pic.


||1914 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (d. 1997)
||1922: Salvatore Giuliano born ... Sicilian bandit, who rose to prominence in the disorder which followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Last of the "People's Bandits", and the first to be covered in real time by mass media.  


||1922 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer (d. 2015)
||1925: Gerhard Hessenberg dies ... mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1899 under the guidance of Hermann Schwarz and Lazarus Fuchs. His name is usually associated with projective geometry, where he is known for proving that Desargues' theorem is a consequence of Pappus's hexagon theorem, and differential geometry where he is known for introducing the concept of a connection. Pic search.


||1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
||1934: Carl von Linde dies ... engineer and academic. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes. Pic.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1939: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] privately advises [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] to begin a bombing campaign in New York City.
||1938: LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. Pic.


File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1940: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] secretly invests in [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky's bombing campaign]].
||1945: Theodor Vahlen dies ... mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS. Pic.
 
||1965: Harry Blackstone, Sr., dies ... magician. Pic.
 
||1965: Stanisław Jaśkowski born ... logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. Pic.
 
||1965: Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
 
||1973: Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
 
||1974: The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
 
||1974: Walther Meissner dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1982: Pavel Alexandrov dies ... mathematician and academic ... important contributions to set theory and topology. Pic.


||1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.


||1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
||1990: Dmitri Skobeltsyn dies - physicist, academician - paved the way for Carl David Anderson's discovery of the positron by two important contributions: by adding a magnetic field to his cloud chamber (in 1925) , and by discovering charged particle cosmic rays, for which he is credited in Anderson's Nobel lecture. Pic search.


||1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
||1992: The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.


||1974 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
||1922: Max Abraham dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1982 – Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)
||1995: Ralph Kronig dies ... physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Pic.


||1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
||1999: Daniel Nathans dies ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1922 – Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1875)
||2005: Henry Taube dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928)
||2007: Gene H. Golub dies ... one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. Pic.


||2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
||2010: Britton Chance dies ... biologist and sailor. Pic.


||2010 – Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (b. 1913)
||2013: Oscar Lanford dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||2013 – Oscar Lanford, American mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
||2016: American statesman and write Melvin Lairdborn dies. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. Pic.


|File:Achilles-wearing-petasos_Louvre_G264_n3.jpg|link=Petasos (nonfiction)|1200 BC: Achilles wears [[Petasos (nonfiction)|Petasos]], starting a a fashion craze in the ancient world.
|File:Aristotle.jpg|link=Aristotle (nonfiction)|320 BC: [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]] discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1525: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]].
|File:Max_Beckmann's_'Self-portrait_with_Horn',_1938-1940.jpg|link=Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|1939: [[Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|Max Beckman]] acquires new horn.
|File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1990: [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour.
|File:Raw sausages.jpg|link=Braunschweiger of the Vanities|1991: [[Braunschweiger of the Vanities]] makes New York Times Bestsellers list.
|File:Rose water manufacturing Kashan.jpg|link=Rose water (nonfiction)|1994: [[Rose water (nonfiction)|Rose water]] smells better than ever.
|File:Doctor Doom first appearance.jpg|link=Supervillain|1995: [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|Doctor Doom]] demands royalty payment for appearance on comic book cover.
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1997: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
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Latest revision as of 16:11, 7 February 2022

  • 1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

    1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

  • 1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

    1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

  • 1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

    1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

  • 1917: Mathematician Derek Taunt born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

    1917: Mathematician Derek Taunt born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

  • 1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

    1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

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