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||1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
||1083: Anna Komnene born ... physician and scholar.


||1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)
||1455: Lorenzo Ghiberti dies ... goldsmith and sculptor.


||1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
||1525: Tadeáš Hájek born ... physician and astronomer.


||1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
||1580: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc born ... astronomer and historian.


||John Keill (b. 1671) was a Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.
||1671: John Keill born ... mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton.


||1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
||1729: Giacomo F. Maraldi dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
||1743: Martin Heinrich Klaproth born ... chemist and academic.


||1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
||1750: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer.


||1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
||1768: The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.


||1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
||1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky born ... mathematician and geometer.


||1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
||1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.


||Eduard Riecke (b. 1 December 1845) was a German experimental physicist.
||1845: Eduard Riecke born ... experimental physicist.


||1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
||1862: In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


||1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
||1913: Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.


||1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1925: Martin Rodbell born ... biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Lee Albert Rubel (b. December 1, 1928) was a mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic
||1928: Lee Albert Rubel born ... mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Nopic


||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... optician, invented the Schmidt camera.
||1935: Bernhard Schmidt dies ... optician, invented the Schmidt camera.
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||1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
||1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.


File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] accidentally causes an [[Evil bit release]] event.
File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|link=Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] accidentally causes an [[Evil bit release]] event.


||2005: Gust Avrakotos dies ... American CIA officer.
||2005: Gust Avrakotos dies ... American CIA officer.

Revision as of 17:34, 14 September 2018

  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1947: Mathematician and crime-fighter L. E. J. Brouwer publishes new theory of complex analysis with application in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

    1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss new theory of Gnomon algorithm functions which argues that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

  • 2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol accidentally causes an Evil bit release event.

    2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol accidentally causes an Evil bit release event.

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