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File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | ||
||1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and author (d. 1776) | |||
||1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701) | ||1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701) | ||
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high. | File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high. | ||
||1792 – "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. | |||
||1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. | ||1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine. | ||
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||1854 – Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor (d. 1940) | ||1854 – Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor (d. 1940) | ||
||1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. | |||
||1868 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (d. 1910) | ||1868 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (d. 1910) | ||
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||1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | ||1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) | ||
|| | ||1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates. | ||
||1903 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1987) | |||
||1918 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995) | ||1918 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995) | ||
Revision as of 16:39, 17 September 2017
1598: Donnybrook breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, crimes against mathematical constants.
1599: Oliver Cromwell born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1770: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
1840: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
1959: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1984: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of Clandestiphrine with no apparent ill effect.