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||585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. | |||
||1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1754) | |||
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles. | ||
||1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. | |||
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory. | File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory. | ||
||1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic (d. 1918) | |||
||1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758) | |||
||1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939) | |||
||1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer (d. 1917) | |||
||1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958) | |||
||1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992) | |||
||1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981) | |||
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication. | |||
||1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895) | |||
||1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988. | |||
||1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually. | |||
||2000 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926) | |||
||Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS (d. 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network. | |||
||2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. | |||
||2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933) | |||
||2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | |||
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies. | File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies. | ||
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Revision as of 08:13, 3 September 2017
1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1834: Inventor and engineer Charles Grafton Page uses Gnomon algorithm functions to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.