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||1659 – David Gregory, Scottish-English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1708) | |||
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". | File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". | ||
||1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (d. 1797) | |||
File:Opium War.jpg|link=|1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the [[First Opium War (nonfiction)|First Opium War]]. | File:Opium War.jpg|link=|1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the [[First Opium War (nonfiction)|First Opium War]]. | ||
||1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1942) | |||
||1873 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961) | |||
||1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. | |||
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card analyzer to anticipate [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card analyzer to anticipate [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) | |||
||1900 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (d. 1932) [1] | |||
||1900 – Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (d. 1997) | |||
||1906 – R. G. D. Allen, English economist, mathematician, and statistician (d. 1983) | |||
||1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men. | |||
File:Igor Shafarevich.jpg|link=Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and dissident [[Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|Igor Shafarevich]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. | File:Igor Shafarevich.jpg|link=Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and dissident [[Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|Igor Shafarevich]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. | ||
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes influential paper on applications of [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]] to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes influential paper on applications of [[Game theory (nonfiction)|game theory]] to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots. | |||
||1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk. | |||
||1971 – Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894) | |||
||Archibald Vivian Hill CH OBE FRS (d. 3 June 1977), known as A. V. Hill, was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his elucidation of the production of heat and mechanical work in muscles. | |||
||1990 – Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (b. 1927) | |||
||1991 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1946) | |||
||1991 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician and academic (b. 1918) | |||
File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems. | File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematician and academic [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems. | ||
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Revision as of 11:03, 29 October 2017
1723: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli born. He will be called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1839: In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, preliminary to the First Opium War.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card analyzer to anticipate crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich born. He will make fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.
1927: Mathematician Karl Menger publishes influential paper on applications of game theory to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
2010: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold dies. He helped develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.