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|File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1114: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations. | |File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1114: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] equations. | ||
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name. | File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name. | ||
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion. | File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He discovered laws of planetary motion. | ||
||1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757) | |||
||1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822) | |||
||1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880) | |||
||1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749) | |||
||1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934) | |||
||1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947) | |||
||1874 – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949) | |||
File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected. | File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected. | ||
||1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979) | |||
||1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010) | |||
||1919 – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) | |||
||1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854) | |||
||1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004) | |||
||1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic | |||
||1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015) She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. | |||
||1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) | |||
||1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. | |||
||1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. | |||
||1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. | |||
||1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death". | |||
||1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. | |||
||1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. | |||
||1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. | |||
||1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight. | |||
||1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. | |||
File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom. | File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom. | ||
File:No Image.gif|link=Murder, Incorporated 1.1|2016: [[Killer Poke]] denies involvement in [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]]. | File:No Image.gif|link=Murder, Incorporated 1.1|2016: [[Killer Poke]] denies involvement in [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]]. | ||
Revision as of 15:19, 1 October 2017
1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.
1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
1894: Donnybrook breaks out, Extract of Radium abuse suspected.
2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.
2016: Killer Poke denies involvement in San Francisco Muni hack.