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||1559 – Robert Estienne, English-French printer and scholar (b. 1503) | |||
||1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India. | |||
|File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: Writer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | |File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: Writer [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions." | ||
||1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (d. 1788) | |||
||1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). | |||
||1799 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (b. 1717) | |||
||1829 – August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (d. 1896) | |||
||1836 – August Toepler, German physicist and academic (d. 1912) | |||
||1909 – Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. | |||
||1914 – James Van Allen, American physicist and philosopher (d. 2006) | |||
||1915 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 2008) | |||
||1917 – John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) | |||
||1923 – The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed. | |||
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]]. | File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]]. | ||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1940 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights | |||
||1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula. | |||
||1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella. | |||
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory. | ||
||1991 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) | |||
File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' sells for two million dollars. | File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' sells for two million dollars. | ||
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Revision as of 16:06, 17 August 2017
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by inventor Philo Farnsworth.
1928: Mathematician and crime-fighter Abraham Fraenkel publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on axiomatic set theory, which he uses to detect and counteract crimes against mathematical constants.
1985: Mathematician George Pólya dies. He made fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
2017: Signed first edition of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus sells for two million dollars.