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||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1975: Miron Nicolescu dies ... mathematician. | ||1975: Miron Nicolescu dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1984: Henri Fabre dies ... pilot and engineer ... the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. Pic. | ||1984: Henri Fabre dies ... pilot and engineer ... the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion. Pic. | ||
||1995: Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy cosmonaut dies ... will command space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights. | ||1995: Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy cosmonaut dies ... will command space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. At the time of his flight, Beregovoy was 47 years of age: he was the earliest-born human to go to orbit, being born three months and three days earlier than the second earliest-born man in orbit – John Glenn, but later than X-15 pilot Joe Walker who made 2 (or 3, according to USAF definition) suborbital space flights. Pic (postage stamp). | ||
||2002: Claude Jacques Berge dies ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge | ||2002: Claude Jacques Berge dies ... mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Claude-Berge | ||
||2015: Robert Dewar dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||2015: Robert Dewar dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1907: Spike in crimes against mathematical constants blamed on upcoming Tunguska event.
1905: Albert Einstein sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.