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File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]. | File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens. Famous future alumni will include [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Leibniz]], Goethe, Ranke, [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Nietzsche]], Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]]. | ||
||1594: | File:Gerardus_Mercator.jpg|link=Gerardus Mercator (nonfiction)|1594: Mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher [[Gerardus Mercator (nonfiction)|Gerardus Mercator]] dies. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts. | ||
||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||1678: Nicolaas Kruik born ... astronomer and cartographer. Pic: map by Kruik. | ||
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||1939: New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens. | ||1939: New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens. | ||
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. | File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. | ||
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||1954: Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute". | ||1954: Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute". | ||
||1959: Malpasset Dam collapse - killing 423 people in the resulting flood.[1][2] The damage amounted to an equivalent total of US$68 million. The event also ushered in the practise of posthumous marriage in France for civilians as many women who lost their fiancés were granted the right to marry them after death. Pic. | |||
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism. | File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1966: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism. | ||
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||******DO THIS: 2002: György Marx born ... physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. Pic: crazy cool !! | ||******DO THIS: 2002: György Marx born ... physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. Pic: crazy cool !! | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:56, 7 February 2022
1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.
1594: Mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher Gerardus Mercator dies. He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.
1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.