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File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1555: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1555: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | ||
File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight." | File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight." | ||
File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | ||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] designs new type of [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]] powered by [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] designs new type of [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]] powered by [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. | ||
||1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion. | |||
||1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856) | |||
||1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849) | |||
||1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (d. 1929) | |||
||1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959) | |||
File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]]. | File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]]. | ||
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. | File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century. | ||
||1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | |||
File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. | File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. | ||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | ||
||1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001) | |||
||1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. | |||
||1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists. | |||
||1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR. | |||
||1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. | |||
||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. | |||
||1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth. | |||
||1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894) | |||
|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]]. | |File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
||1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System. | |||
||1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934) | |||
||1996 – Copernicium is first discovered. | |||
||Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda (Japanese: 池田 正敏 ギュンドゥズ Ikeda Masatoshi Gyunduzu) (d/ 9 February 2003), was a Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory. | |||
||2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927) | |||
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Revision as of 19:28, 28 October 2017
1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs new type of airship powered by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft.
1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."