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|File:Hugo Grotius.jpg|link=Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|1644: [[Hugo Grotius (nonfiction)|Hugo Grotius]] condemns [[crimes against mathematical constants]] as a violation of natural law.


File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''.
File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.


||1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874)
File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.


||1835 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).


||1854 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915)
File:Wacław Sierpiński.jpg|link=Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician and academic [[Wacław Sierpiński (nonfiction)|Wacław Sierpiński]] born. Sierpiński  will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.


||1862 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
File:JNACC Record of Events - 1961 Yuba City crash.jpg|link=1961 Yuba City B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.
 
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1878: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat.
 
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] born. He will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
 
||1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)
 
||1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
 
||1920 – Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)
 
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
 
||1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
 
||1961 – USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca.
 
||1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
 
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
 
||1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
 
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1973: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] dies. He designed the  Harvard Mark I computer.
 
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
 
||1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 
||2016 – John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928)


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Latest revision as of 05:24, 14 March 2022

  • 1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.

    1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, comprising his famed Magdeburg hemispheres demonstration, other vacuum-related research, and his pioneering investigation of static electricity.

  • 1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.

    1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek born. Van Musschenbroek will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.

  • 1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).

    1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein born. Einstein will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (the other pillar: quantum mechanics).

  • 1882: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński born. Sierpiński will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.

    1882: Mathematician and academic Wacław Sierpiński born. Sierpiński will make important contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology.

  • 1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.

    1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying two (or perhaps four) nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. The weapons' safety interlocks prevent both a nuclear explosion and release of radioactive material.

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