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File:Demosthenes.jpg|link=Demosthenes (nonfiction)|322 BC: Athenian politician and orator [[Demosthenes (nonfiction)|Demosthenes]] takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies. | File:Demosthenes.jpg|link=Demosthenes (nonfiction)|322 BC: Athenian politician and orator [[Demosthenes (nonfiction)|Demosthenes]] takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies. | ||
||1492: Piero della Francesca dies ... mathematician and painter. | ||1492: Piero della Francesca dies ... mathematician and painter. No DOB. Pic. | ||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to communicate with [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]]. | ||1578: Cornelius Gemma dies ... astronomer and astrologer. Pic. | ||
|File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to communicate with [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]]. | |||
||1654: The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city. Over a hundred people were killed and thousands were wounded. About 30 tonnes (29.5 long tons; 33.1 short tons) of gunpowder were stored in barrels in a magazine in a former Clarissen convent in the Doelenkwartier district. Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Today, the explosion is remembered primarily for killing Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius, and destroying almost all his works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft#Delft_Explosion | ||1654: The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city. Over a hundred people were killed and thousands were wounded. About 30 tonnes (29.5 long tons; 33.1 short tons) of gunpowder were stored in barrels in a magazine in a former Clarissen convent in the Doelenkwartier district. Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Today, the explosion is remembered primarily for killing Rembrandt's most promising pupil, Carel Fabritius, and destroying almost all his works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delft#Delft_Explosion | ||
||1692: The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips. | ||1692: The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips. | ||
||1725: Étienne Louis Geoffroy born ... pharmacist and entomologist. | ||1725: Étienne Louis Geoffroy born ... pharmacist and entomologist. | ||
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||1814: Henri Édouard Tresca born ... mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | ||1814: Henri Édouard Tresca born ... mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | ||
||1827: Josiah Parsons Cooke born ... scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others. Pic. | |||
||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. | ||1847: German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. | ||
||1845: Elizabeth Fry dies ... prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has often been referred to as the "angel of prisons". Pic. | |||
||1859: Robert Stephenson dies ... early railway and civil engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. | ||1859: Robert Stephenson dies ... early railway and civil engineer. The only son of George Stephenson, the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. | ||
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||1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||
||1861: Rikitarō Fujisawa born | File:Fujisawa Rikitaro.jpg|link=Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician [[Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|Rikitarō Fujisawa]] born. During the Meiji era he will be instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. | ||
||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1868: Dr. William Bird dies ... surgeon and chemist known for his discovery of Herapathite. Pic search. | ||
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1875: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist. | ||
||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic. | ||1901: Alexander Weygers born ... polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author. Pic. | ||
||1910: Malcolm Renfrew born ... chemist and academic ... polymers, Teflon. Pic search. | |||
||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor. | ||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor, flat-bottomed paper bag. Pic search/ | ||
||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | File:Cloquet Minnesota after the 1918 fire.jpg|link=Cloquet fire|1918: A [[Cloquet fire (nonfiction)|massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota]]. | ||
||1926: Edwin Abbott Abbott dies ... schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Pic. | |||
||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||
||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. | ||1931: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search. | ||
||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | ||
||1960 | ||1936: The success in making of X-ray moving pictures of internal organs of the human body was reported at the 37th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Cleveland by Drs William H. Stewart, William J. Hoffman and Francis H. Ghiselin from the Manhattan, NY, Lenox Hill Hospital. They used a home 16-mm camera to film moving X-ray images on a fluorescopic screen at 16 frames per second (reduced to 12 or 8 fps for thicker bodies). Two seconds exposure could capture two or three beats of the heart, the act of breathing, movements of the diaphragm or motion of joints. Film clip loops could be projected to show repeating motion. | ||
||1960: Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast. | |||
||1964: The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. | ||1964: The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. | ||
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||1994: The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. | ||1994: The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. | ||
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | |File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1995: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' reveals three terabytes of encrypted data. | ||
||2007: Kisho Kurokawa dies ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower. | ||2007: Kisho Kurokawa dies ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower; he was one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Pic. | ||
||2011: Dennis Ritchie dies ... computer scientist, created the C programming language | ||2009: Frederick Rowbottom dies ... logician and mathematician. The large cardinal notion of Rowbottom cardinals is named after him. Pic: https://week42.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/fred-rowbottom/ | ||
||2011: Dennis Ritchie dies ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. Pic. | |||
||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||2011: Pierre Lelong dies ... mathematician who introduced the Poincaré–Lelong equation, the Lelong number and the concept of plurisubharmonic function. Pic. | ||
||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:22, 7 February 2022
322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1861: Mathematician Rikitarō Fujisawa born. During the Meiji era he will be instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
