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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.


||1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 1900)
||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic.


||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.


||Frank Haven Hall (d. January 3, 1911) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.


||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856)
||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.


||1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
||1892: Heinrich Eduard Schröter dies ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.


File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|1942: Historian, playwright, and crime-fighter [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] publishes account of travelling to [[Abalonia]] and meeting [[The Eel]].
||1906: William Wilson Morgan born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Dr. Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy.  Pic search.


||1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)
||1911: Frank Haven Hall dies ... inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. Pic.


File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.
||1912: John Ralph Ragazzini born ... electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic.


||1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
||1920: Zygmunt Janiszewski dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Janiszewski


||1961 – The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
||1921: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova born ... historian of mathematics. Pic.


|File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
||1927: Carl David Tolmé Runge dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic search.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1932: Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.


||1967 – Reginald Punnett, British scientist (b. 1875)
||1946: Carl Gustav Witt dies ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic.


||1967 – Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer (b. 1911)
||1945: Edgar Cayce dies ... psychic and author. Pic.


||1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
|File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.


||1977 – William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
||1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.


||1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
||1961: The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.


||1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
||1967: Reginald Punnett dies ... scientist. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic.


|File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2009: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] announces Kickstarter campaign to fund new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
File:The Trouble With Triffids.jpg|link=The Trouble With Triffids|1967: Premiere of "'''[[The Trouble With Triffids]]'''", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series ''Star Trek''.


||2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
||1967: Jack Ruby dies ... businessman and murderer. Pic.
 
||1969: Jean Focas dies ... astronomer. No pic online.
 
||1977: William Gropper dies ... lithographer, cartoonist, and painter. Pic.
 
||1989: Sergei Sobolev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1999: The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
 
||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
 
||2013: Marianne Grunberg-Manago dies ... biochemist and academic. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Pic search.
 
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.


|File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.


File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
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Latest revision as of 17:49, 7 February 2022

  • 1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

    1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.

  • 1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

    1777: Mathematician and physicist Louis Poinsot born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.

  • 1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    1819: Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  • 1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

    1967: Premiere of "The Trouble With Triffids", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.

  • 2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

    2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.

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