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File:Eclipse.jpg|3340 BC: Earliest recorded [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|solar eclipse]]. | File:Eclipse.jpg|3340 BC: Earliest recorded [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|solar eclipse]]. | ||
||1603 – William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544) | |||
||1647 – Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1598) | |||
||1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (d. 1827) | |||
||1761 – John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (b. 1706) | |||
||1765 – George Glas, Scottish merchant and explorer (b. 1725) | |||
||1768 – Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish physician, chemist, and biologist (d. 1838) | |||
||1781 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant, and explorer (d. 1873) | |||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1826: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1826: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] born. | ||
||1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (d. 1937) | |||
||1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937) | |||
||1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish-Welsh surgeon, merchant, and explorer (b. 1781) | |||
File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1888: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory. | File:Ralph Hartley.jpg|link=Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|1888: Electronics researcher [[Ralph Hartley (nonfiction)|Ralph Hartley]] born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory. | ||
||1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) | |||
||1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal | |||
||1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. | |||
||1936 – Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2014) | |||
||1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. | |||
||1937 – Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (d. 2010) | |||
File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | ||
||1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. | |||
||1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. | |||
File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|1985: [[Ridley Scott]] revisits his documentary film ''[[Alien (documentary)|Alien]]'', tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version. | File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|1985: [[Ridley Scott]] revisits his documentary film ''[[Alien (documentary)|Alien]]'', tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version. | ||
||2014 – Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (b. 1924) | |||
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Revision as of 21:37, 12 September 2017
3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1826: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1985: Ridley Scott revisits his documentary film Alien, tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version.
