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||1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, Dutch physician and mathematician (b. 1520) | |||
||1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) - anti Liebniz | |||
||1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. | |||
||1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941) | |||
||1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. | |||
||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791) | |||
||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus | |||
||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980) | |||
File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". | File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". | ||
||1921 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (d. 1972) | |||
||1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions. | ||
File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|[[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] agrees to host [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show. | ||1934 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) | ||
File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dick Turpin of Mars|Highwayman [[Dick Turpin of Mars]] takes parting shot at [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], makes another daring escape. | |||
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], new [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show, gets rave reviews. | ||1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) | ||
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]]. | |||
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|[[Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] (1969). | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. | ||
||1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio. | |||
||1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. | |||
File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | |||
|File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|[[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] agrees to host [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show. | |||
|File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dick Turpin of Mars|Highwayman [[Dick Turpin of Mars]] takes parting shot at [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], makes another daring escape. | |||
|File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], new [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show, gets rave reviews. | |||
|File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]]. | |||
|File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|[[Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] (1969). | |||
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | |File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | ||
|File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. | |||
File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. | |||
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1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.