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||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search book cover: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johannes+Fabricius | |||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics". | |||
||1742: Philip Astley born ... equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus". The circus industry, as a presenter of an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated animals, acrobats, and clowns, traces its heritage to Astley's Amphitheatre, a riding school that Astley founded in London following the success of trick-riding displays given by him and his wife Patty Jones in 1768. PIc. | |||
||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer. | |||
||1823: Alfred Russel Wallace born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer. Pic | |||
||1825: Eli Whitney dies ... engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin. Pic. | |||
||1829: Heinrich Eduard Schröter born ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic. | |||
||1835: The United States national debt is zero for the only time. | |||
||1852: Giovanni Frattini born ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory. Pic. | |||
||1868: Sir Frank Watson Dyson born ... astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | |||
||1880: Joshua Abraham Norton, known as Emperor Norton, dies ... Norton was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. In 1863 he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico" after Napoleon III invaded the country. Pic. | |||
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born. He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''. | |||
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator. | |||
||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1896: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake. | |||
||1902: Karl Brandt born ... German SS officer ... T4. Pic. | |||
||1905: Carl Gustav Hempel born ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox"). Pic. | |||
||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic. | |||
||1917: Mathematician and academic Leonard E. "Len" Gillman born. He and Nathan Fine defined remote points and showed that if the continuum hypothesis holds, then the real line (or any separable Tychonoff space that is not pseudocompact) has remote points. Pic: https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/leonard-gillman-1987-1988-maa-president | |||
||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic. | |||
||1920: Osamu Hayaishi dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Osamu+Hayaishi | |||
||1922: Dale D. Myers born ... engineer. Pic. | |||
||1922: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html | |||
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1923: Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence. | |||
||1923: Bryce Seligman DeWitt born ... theoretical physicist who studied gravity and field theories. Pic. | |||
||1924: Paul Moritz Cohn born ... Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings. Pic. | |||
||1952: Antonia Maury dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic. | |||
||1956: Greenleaf Whittier Pickard dies ... radio pioneer. He was responsible for the development of the crystal detector, (cat's whisker detector), a radio wave detector which was the central component in early radio receivers called crystal radios. He also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation, and noise suppression. Pic. | |||
||1956: Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them. | |||
||1968: Charles Loewner dies ... mathematician. One of his central mathematical contributions is the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture in the first highly nontrivial case of the third coefficient. The technique he introduced, the Loewner differential equation, has had far-reaching implications in geometric function theory. Pic. | |||
||1963: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. | |||
||1973: Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins. | |||
File:Nostromo Cafe.jpg|link=Nostromo Cafe|The '''[[Nostromo Cafe]]''' opens. It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship. | |||
||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly | |||
||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". | |||
||1982: Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. | |||
||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations. Pic. | |||
||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space. (Alive December 2019.) Pic. | |||
||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | |||
||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|2002: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett]] dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. | |||
||2005: The nuclear sub ''USS San Francisco'' collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired. | |||
||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic ... pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy in Germany, especially of Raman- and Infrared spectroscopy and its routine application in chemical analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Bernhard+Schrader+chemist | |||
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1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
1888: Mathematician Richard Courant born. He will co-write What is Mathematics?.
1889: Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1896: Geologist Sekiya Seikei dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
1923: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
1973: Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
The Nostromo Cafe opens. It is the first known take-out restaurant aboard a spaceship.
2002: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies. Bartlett made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, and is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.