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||1529: Michael Neander born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search | || *** DONE: Pics *** | ||
||1529: Michael Neander born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search. | |||
File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. | File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. | ||
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||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1753: Simon Willard born ... celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Pic | ||1753: Simon Willard born ... celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Pic search. | ||
||1764: John Abernethy born ... surgeon and anatomist. His ''Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases'' (1809) — known as "My Book", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science. So great was his zeal in encouraging patients to read the book that he earned the nickname "Doctor My-Book". Pic. | ||1764: John Abernethy born ... surgeon and anatomist. His ''Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases'' (1809) — known as "My Book", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science. So great was his zeal in encouraging patients to read the book that he earned the nickname "Doctor My-Book". Pic. | ||
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||1832: Wilhelm Fiedler born ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry. Pic. | ||1832: Wilhelm Fiedler born ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry. Pic. | ||
||1834: Lucien de la Rive born ... physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity. Pic search | ||1834: Lucien de la Rive born ... physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity. Pic search. | ||
||1881: Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich dies ... Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), and was also a rocket pioneer. He was the paternal uncle of revolutionary Victor Serge. Pic. | ||1881: Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich dies ... Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya (the People's Will), and was also a rocket pioneer. He was the paternal uncle of revolutionary Victor Serge. Pic. | ||
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||1885: Bud Fisher born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1885: Bud Fisher born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1888: Jack the Ripper: The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London | ||1888: Jack the Ripper: The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London. | ||
||1888: Carl Gustav Axel von Harnack dies ... mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves. Pic. | ||1888: Carl Gustav Axel von Harnack dies ... mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves. Pic. | ||
||1892: Hans Adolph Rademacher born ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic | ||1892: Hans Adolph Rademacher born ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. Pic. | ||1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. Pic. | ||
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||1910: Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg dies ... chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic. | ||1910: Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg dies ... chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic. | ||
||1913: Jan Mikusiński born ... mathematician based at the University of Wrocław known for his pioneering work in mathematical analysis. Mikusiński developed an operational calculus – known as the Calculus of Mikusiński (MSC 44A40), which is relevant for solving differential equations. His operational calculus is based upon an algebra of the convolution of functions with respect to the Fourier transform. From the convolution product he goes on to define what in other contexts is called the field of fractions or a quotient field. These ordered pairs of functions Mikusiński calls operators – Mikusiński Operator. Pic | ||1913: Jan Mikusiński born ... mathematician based at the University of Wrocław known for his pioneering work in mathematical analysis. Mikusiński developed an operational calculus – known as the Calculus of Mikusiński (MSC 44A40), which is relevant for solving differential equations. His operational calculus is based upon an algebra of the convolution of functions with respect to the Fourier transform. From the convolution product he goes on to define what in other contexts is called the field of fractions or a quotient field. These ordered pairs of functions Mikusiński calls operators – Mikusiński Operator. Pic search. | ||
||1922: Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | ||1922: Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. | ||
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||1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. Pic. | ||1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. Pic. | ||
||1955: The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges. | ||1955: The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges. Pic. | ||
||1969: Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. Pic. | ||1969: Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. Pic. | ||
||1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. | ||1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. (Alive March 2020.) Pic. | ||
||1975: Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. | ||1975: Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. Pic. | ||
||1976: David M. Dennison dies ... physicist and academic ... made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure. Pic. | ||1976: David M. Dennison dies ... physicist and academic ... made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure. Pic. | ||
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||1981: The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. | ||1981: The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. | ||
||1988: Milton Caniff dies ... cartoonist. | ||1988: Milton Caniff dies ... cartoonist: Terry and the Pirates, Steve Cannon. PIc. | ||
File:Marion Tinsley.jpg|link=Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|1995: Mathematician and checkers player [[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Tinsley]] dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music." | File:Marion Tinsley.jpg|link=Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|1995: Mathematician and checkers player [[Marion Tinsley (nonfiction)|Marion Tinsley]] dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music." | ||
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||2012: Mingote dies ... cartoonist and journalist. | ||2012: Mingote dies ... cartoonist and journalist. | ||
||2014: Fred Kida dies ... illustrator ... Airboy. | ||2014: Fred Kida dies ... illustrator ... Airboy. Pic. | ||
||2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. | ||2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. | ||
Revision as of 18:28, 3 April 2020
1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1907: Cryptanalyst and mathematician Solomon Kullback born. Krullback will begin his career with the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s; when the National Security Agency (NSA) is formed in 1952, Rowlett will become chief of cryptanalysis, overseeing the research and development of computerized cryptanalysis.
1908: Chemist, physicist, and APTO field engineer William Crookes uses the famous Crookes tube to defeat the criminal mathematical function Killer Poke in single combat.
1995: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley dies. Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
2017: Signed first edition of Crimson Blossom spontaneously develop and previously unknown shade of red after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during a high-energy literature experiment.
