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||1530 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590) | |||
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. | File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. | ||
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1848 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915) | |||
||1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952) | |||
||1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962) | |||
||1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. | |||
||1886 – Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950) | |||
||1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. | |||
||1890 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946) - Zyklon B | |||
||1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | ||
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | ||
||1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. | |||
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] dies. He designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes. | |||
||1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985) | |||
||1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. | |||
||1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) | |||
||1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. | |||
||1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) | |||
||1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. | |||
||2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943) | |||
||2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. | |||
||2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928) | |||
|File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected. | |File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected. | ||
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Revision as of 15:55, 6 August 2017
1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.
1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.