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||1877: Georg Adolf Erman dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||1877: Georg Adolf Erman dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1879: Margherita Piazzola Beloch born ... mathematician ... worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Pic search | ||1879: Margherita Piazzola Beloch born ... mathematician ... worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Pic search. | ||
||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
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File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1895: Polymath [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller]] born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. | File:Buckminster Fuller as a young man.jpg|link=Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|1895: Polymath [[Buckminster Fuller (nonfiction)|Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller]] born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. | ||
||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. Pic search | ||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. Pic search. | ||
||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search maybe | ||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search maybe. | ||
||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search | ||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search. | ||
||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer ... made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design'' is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. Pic search | ||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer ... made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design'' is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. Pic search. | ||
||1912: Harold R. McCluskey born ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | ||1912: Harold R. McCluskey born ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | ||
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||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic. | ||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic. | ||
||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. Pic search | ||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. Pic search. | ||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair. | ||
||1941: Stanisław Ruziewicz dies ... mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | ||1941: Stanisław Ruziewicz dies ... mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | ||
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||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | ||
||1983: Ernst Gabor Straus dies ... mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. Pic search | ||1979: The Corona de Aragón Fire was a fire that killed at least 80 people in the five star Corona de Aragón Hotel in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain on 12 July 1979. At the time of the event the Hotel lodged high-profile General Franco family members Carmen Polo, Carmen Franco y Polo and Cristóbal Martínez Bordiú, as well as many high-ranking military personnel, five of whom died in the fire. Probable arson. | ||
||1983: Ernst Gabor Straus dies ... mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. Pic search. | |||
||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 13:35, 29 June 2021
1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1895: Polymath Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller born. Fuller was, among other things, an architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.