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||1349: The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. | ||1349: The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. | ||
||1586: Paul Wittich born ... mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth, may have directly inspired Tycho Brahe's more radically heliocentric geoheliocentric model in which all the 5 known primary planets orbited the Sun, which in turn orbited the stationary Earth. Diagram | ||1586: Paul Wittich born ... mathematician and astronomer whose Capellan geoheliocentric model, in which the inner planets Mercury and Venus orbit the sun but the outer planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Earth, may have directly inspired Tycho Brahe's more radically heliocentric geoheliocentric model in which all the 5 known primary planets orbited the Sun, which in turn orbited the stationary Earth. Pic: Diagram. | ||
||1757: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle born ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic. | ||1757: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle born ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic. | ||
||1793: Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. | ||1793: Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. Pic. | ||
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | ||
||1816: Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. | ||1816: Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. Pic. | ||
||1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | ||1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | ||
||1843: William Hedley dies ... engineer. | ||1843: William Hedley dies ... engineer. One of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development. He built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails. Pic. | ||
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | ||
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||1864: Vladimir Steklov born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||1864: Vladimir Steklov born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1868: S. P. L. Sørensen born ... chemist and academic. | ||1868: S. P. L. Sørensen born ... chemist and academic ... famous for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity. Pic. | ||
||1869: Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg born ... chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic. | ||1869: Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg born ... chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic. | ||
||1870: Joseph Strauss born ... engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge. | ||1870: Joseph Strauss born ... engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge. Pic (statue). | ||
||1888: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||1888: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||
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File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.) | File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.) | ||
||1901: Chic Young born ... cartoonist. | ||1901: Chic Young born ... cartoonist: Blondie. Pic. | ||
||1905: Louise Michel dies ... teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy" and "Red Virgin". Pic. | ||1905: Louise Michel dies ... teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy" and "Red Virgin". Pic. | ||
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||1910: James Leslie Tuck born ... physicist ... involvement with the Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||1910: James Leslie Tuck born ... physicist ... involvement with the Manhattan Project. Pic. | ||
||1916: Peter Twinn born ... | File:Peter_Twinn.jpg|link=Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and entomologist [[Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|Peter Twinn]] born. During the Second World War, he will be the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. | ||
||1917: Luther D. Bradley dies ... illustrator and political cartoonist associated with the Chicago Daily News ... known for strong anti-war sentiments, opposing U.S. involvement in World War I. Pic. | |||
File: | File:Charles-Émile Reynaud.jpg|link=Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|1918: Scientist, inventor, and educator [[Charles-Émile Reynaud (nonfiction)|Charles-Émile Reynaud]] dies. He invented the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films. | ||
|| | ||1920: Jack Kinzler born ... NASA engineer, the former chief of the Technical Services Center at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, known within the agency as Mr. Fix It. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for creating the solar shield that saved Skylab after the original micrometeoroid shield was lost during launch of the station. Pic. | ||
||1921: Konstantin Mereschkowski dies ... biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis. Pic. | |||
||1922: Har Gobind Khorana born ... biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Pic. | ||1922: Har Gobind Khorana born ... biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Pic. | ||
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||1923: Vasilii Vladimirov born ... mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems. Pic. | ||1923: Vasilii Vladimirov born ... mathematician and mathematical physicist working in the fields of number theory, mathematical physics, quantum field theory, numerical analysis, generalized functions, several complex variables, p-adic analysis, multidimensional tauberian theorems. Pic. | ||
||1923: Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. | File:Juan_de_la_Cierva,_aeródromo_de_Lasarte,_1930.jpg|link=Juan de la Cierva (nonfiction)|1923: Engineer, inventor, and pilot [[Juan de la Cierva (nonfiction)|Juan de la Cierva]] makes the first autogyro flight. | ||
||1933: Kate Gleason dies ... engineer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. Pic. | |||
||1938: C. P. Ramanujam born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www.indiaonline.in/about/personalities/scientists/cp-ramanujam | ||1938: C. P. Ramanujam born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www.indiaonline.in/about/personalities/scientists/cp-ramanujam | ||
||1942: Jerzy | File:Jerzy_Rozycki.jpg|link=Jerzy Różycki|1942: Mathematician and cryptologist [[Jerzy Różycki (nonfiction)|Jerzy Różycki]] dies. Różycki worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II. | ||
||1947: Sōichi Kakeya dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexandre-théophile+vandermonde | ||1947: Sōichi Kakeya dies ... mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexandre-théophile+vandermonde | ||
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||1951: Abraham Cressy Morrison dies ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic. | ||1951: Abraham Cressy Morrison dies ... chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Yeast of Eden.jpg|link=Yeast of Eden|1955: Premiere of '''''[[Yeast of Eden]]''''', an American period drama film about a wayward young baker (James Dean) who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the yeast of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. | ||
||1958: Willis Rodney Whitney dies ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic. | ||1958: Willis Rodney Whitney dies ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic. | ||
||1963: Enea Bossi, Sr. dies ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante. Pic. | |||
||1972: Gottlob "Espe" Espenlaub born ... inventor who specialized in early types of aircraft, specifically gliders and rocket propulsion systems designed for them. He invented a number of different aircraft, focusing on tailless designs. Pic. | ||1972: Gottlob "Espe" Espenlaub born ... inventor who specialized in early types of aircraft, specifically gliders and rocket propulsion systems designed for them. He invented a number of different aircraft, focusing on tailless designs. Pic. | ||
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File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1989: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] dies. He contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures. | File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1989: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] dies. He contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures. | ||
||1998: Kenichi Fukui dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1998: Kenichi Fukui dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2000: Arnold Alexander Hall dies ... engineer and academic. | ||2000: Arnold Alexander Hall dies ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||
||2014: First fight of DF-ZF hyper-glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF Pic. | ||2014: First fight of DF-ZF hyper-glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF Pic. | ||
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1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1848: Astronomer Caroline Herschel dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.)
1916: Mathematician and entomologist Peter Twinn born. During the Second World War, he will be the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School.
1918: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud dies. He invented the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films.
1923: Engineer, inventor, and pilot Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1942: Mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki dies. Różycki worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II.
1955: Premiere of Yeast of Eden, an American period drama film about a wayward young baker (James Dean) who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the yeast of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.
1989: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone dies. He contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.