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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
||1742: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist. Pic.


||1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles born ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic.


||1793 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (d. 1831) traveller
||1746: Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, known as Tiradentes born ... he will be leading member of the Brazilian revolutionary movement known as Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese colonial power and creation of a Brazilian republic. Pic.


||1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
File:Jean_Sylvain_Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.


||1842 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PC, PRS (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.
||1833: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin born ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.


||1847 – William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
||1840: Auguste Rodin born ... sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker.


||1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
||1842: John William Strutt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.


||1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
||1847: William Christopher Zeise dies ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic.


||1916 – Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (b. 1855)
||1881: Erich Regener born ... physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes. He is also known for predicting a 2.8 K cosmic background radiation,[1] for the invention of the scintillation counter which contributed to the discovery of the structure of the atom, for his calculation of the charge of an electron and for his early work on atmospheric ozone. He is also credited with the first use of rockets for scientific research. Pic.


||1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and theorist (d. 1958)
||1902: William Henry Barlow dies ... engineer.


||1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
||1902: Ogden Nicholas Rood dies ... physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.


||1928 – SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
||1910: Hua Luogeng (or Hua Loo-gehng) born ... mathematician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.


||1936 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
||1912: The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.


File:Abe Reles corpse.png|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] dies.
||1916: Percival Lowell dies ... American astronomer, mathematician, and author. Pic.


File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1942: Mathematician and soldier [[Janet Beta]] discovers evidence [[Colonel Zersetzung]] is secretly diverting government-issued [[Extract of Radium]] for his personal use.
||1920: Georges Henri Reeb born ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic.
 
||1923: Irving S. Reed born ... mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Irving+S.+Reed
 
||1927: Yutaka Taniyama born ... mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. Pic.
 
||1927: Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
 
||1928: SS Vestris sinks approximately 200 miles (320 km) off Hampton Roads, Virginia, killing at least 110 passengers, mostly women and children who die after the vessel is abandoned.
 
||1930: Norman Woodason Johnson born ... mathematician. In 1966 he enumerated 92 convex non-uniform polyhedra with regular faces. Victor Zalgaller later proved (1969) that Johnson's list was complete; the complete set is now known as the Johnson solids. Pic.
 
||1932: Dugald Clerk dies ... engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic.
 
||1936: In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
 
||1930: Floris Takens born ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic.
 
File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.
 
||1944: Otto Blumenthal dies ... mathematician and academic. Blumenthal made a fundamental, though often overlooked, contribution to aerodynamics by building on Joukowsky's work to extract the complex transformation that carries the latter's name. Pic.


File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1946: Military officer and alleged crime bos [[Colonel Zersetzung]] uses [[Extract of Radium]] to secretly synthesize illegal [[Clandestiphrine]].


File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.


||1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
||1969: William F. Friedman dies ... US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. Pic.


||1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.
||1969: Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.


||1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
||1970: The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.


||1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
||1971: Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.


||1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
||1980: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.


File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|1989: [[AESOP]] predicts that [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] will propose the World Wide Web one year from today.
||1981: Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.


File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
File:Tim Berners-Lee (2009).jpg|link=Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer and computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee (nonfiction)|Tim Berners-Lee]] publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.


||1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
||1995: Roland Lvovich Dobrushin dies ... mathematician who made important contributions to probability theory, mathematical physics, and information theory. Pic.
 
||1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 
||1998: Sally Shlaer dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
 
||2005: Computer scientist Jerre Noe dies. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jerre+Noe


||1998 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1938)
||2013: Mavis Lilian Batey dies ... code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html


||2013 – Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1944)
||2013: Aleksandr Serebrov dies ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp.


||2014 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (b. 1948) no pic
||2014: John Briscoe dies ... epidemiologist, water engineer, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer


||2014 – Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1945)
||2014: Valery Senderov dies ...  Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Valery+Senderov


|File:Cleopatra-dies-of-asp-bite-and-IBM-PC.png|link=Death of Cleopatra|[[Death of Cleopatra|Cleopatra dies]] of asp bite, according to IBM-PC.
|File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] implicated in [[death of Cleopatra]].
|File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|[[High-energy literature]] generates advances in [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|artificial hedonism]] therapy.
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] on the rise, according to [[Cantor Parabola]].
|File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|link=Hollerith card (nonfiction)|[[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|Hollerith punched card]] hold key to [[Pi disaster]], says [[John Brunner]].
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|[[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] useful in stopping [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Draw Doug genetic algorithm.jpg|link=Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|[[Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|genetic algorithms]] may be useful in solving [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 7 February 2022

  • 1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.

    1793: Astronomer, mathematician, and political leader Jean Sylvain Bailly is guillotined during the Reign of Terror. He participated in the early stages of the French Revolution, presiding over the Tennis Court Oath, and serving as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791.

  • 1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant Abe Reles falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.

    1941: New York mobster and hit man turned goverment informant Abe Reles falls to his death while under police custody. Despite knotted sheets and other evidence of an escape attempt, there is widespread belief that Reles was murdered to prevent him from testifying.

  • 1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

    1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.

  • 1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

    1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.

  • 1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

    1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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