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||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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||1914: Margaret E. Knight dies ... inventor, flat-bottomed paper bag. Pic search/ | ||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. | ||1926: Edwin Abbott Abbott dies ... schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Pic. | ||
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||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. | ||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. | ||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. | ||
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||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search. | ||2013: George Herbig dies ... astronomer. He is perhaps best known for the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic search. | ||
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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.
