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||1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake | |||
File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1604: Mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] publishes new work on [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata theory]] and its application to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1604: Mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] publishes new work on [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata theory]] and its application to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues. | File:Philippe de La Hire.jpg|link=Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect [[Philippe de La Hire (nonfiction)|Philippe de La Hire]] born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues. | ||
||1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764) | |||
||1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. | |||
||1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913) | |||
||1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917) | |||
||1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) | |||
||1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945) | |||
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium compounds]] to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium compounds]] to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985) | |||
||1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827) | |||
File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] born. | File:George Plimpton 1993.jpg|link=George Plimpton (nonfiction)|1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] born. | ||
File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=|2017: ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' declared Picture of the Day. | File:Lend a Hand.jpg|link=|2017: ''[[Lend a Hand (nonfiction)|Lend a Hand]]'' declared Picture of the Day. | ||
||1930 – James J. Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998) | |||
||1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. | |||
||1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. | |||
||1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. | |||
||1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. | |||
||Dirk Polder (d. March 18, 2001) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force. | |||
||2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939) | |||
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Revision as of 11:16, 29 October 2017
1604: Mathematician Robert Fludd publishes new work on cellular automata theory and its application to crimes against mathematical constants.
1640: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire born. He will be the favorite pupil of Desargues, and develop conic sections and epicycloids based on the teaching of Desargues.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium compounds to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1927: Journalist, writer, literary editor, and actor George Plimpton born.
2017: Lend a Hand declared Picture of the Day.