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||1482 – Jo Gwang-jo, Korean philosopher (d. 1520)
||1482: Jo Gwang-jo born ... philosopher.


||1540 – Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1467
||1540: Guillaume Budé dies ... philosopher and scholar.


||1659 – Henry Every, English pirate (d. 1696)
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1638: Descartes' proposal. [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]], in a letter to [[Marin Mersenne (nonfiction)|Marin Mersenne]], proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]]'s differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.  


||1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675)
||1659: Henry Every born ... pirate.


||1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic (d. 1832)
||1623: Stanisław Lubieniecki born ... astronomer, theologian, and historian.


||Friedrich Tiedemann (23 August 1781 – 22 January 1861) was a German anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.
||1769: Georges Cuvier born ... biologist and academic.


||1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852)
||1781: Friedrich Tiedemann born ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.


||Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (b. 23 August 1797) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.
||1783: William Tierney Clark born ... engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge.


||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
||1797: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant born ... mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.
 
||1806: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb dies ... physicist and engineer.


File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] born. He will write ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
File:Moritz Benedikt Cantor.jpg|link=Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and historian [[Moritz Cantor (nonfiction)|Moritz Cantor]] born. He will write ''Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik'', which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.


||1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
||1831: Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
 
||1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.


||Osborne Reynolds (b. 23 August 1842) was a prominent Irish innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design. Pic.
||1839: The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.


||1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
||1842: Osborne Reynolds born ... innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design. Pic.


||Robert William Theodore Gunther (b. 23 August 1869) was a historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
||1847: Sarah Frances Whiting born ... physicist and astronomer.


||1875 – William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (d. 1966)
||1869: Robert William Theodore Gunther born ... historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.


||Auguste Bravais (b. 23 August 1811) was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.
||1875: William Eccles born ... physicist and engineer.


|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
||1811: Auguste Bravais born ... physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Pic.


||Joseph Fels Ritt (b. August 23, 1893) was an American mathematician
||1893: Joseph Fels Ritt born ... mathematician


||1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
||1904: The automobile tire chain is patented.


||1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (d. 1984). Pic.
||1919: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||Dirk Polder (b. August 23, 1919) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force.  
||1919: Dirk Polder born ... physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today is known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force.  


||Conrad Lee Longmire (b. August 23, 1921) was an American theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. Pic.
||1921: Conrad Lee Longmire born ... theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse. Pic.


||1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
||1921: British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.


||1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer (d. 2003)
||1923: Edgar F. Codd born ... computer scientist and programmer.


||1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
||1923: Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.


||Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (d. 23 August 1923), was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
||1923: Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton dies ... engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.


File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|1946: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|1946: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Kostas Georgakis (b. 23 August 1948) was a Greek student of geology, who, in the early hours of 19 September 1970, set himself ablaze in Matteotti square in Genoa as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. Pic.
||1948: Kostas Georgakis born ... Greek student of geology, who, in the early hours of 19 September 1970, set himself ablaze in Matteotti square in Genoa as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. Pic.


||RDS-4 (also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately 1200 kg (2646 lb). The device was approximately one-third the size of the RDS-3. The bomb was dropped from an IL-28 aircraft at an altitude of 11 km and exploded at 600 m, with a yield of 28 kt.
||1953: RDS-4 (also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device weighed approximately 1200 kg (2646 lb). The device was approximately one-third the size of the RDS-3. The bomb was dropped from an IL-28 aircraft at an altitude of 11 km and exploded at 600 m, with a yield of 28 kt.


||1954 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)
||1954: Jaan Sarv dies ... mathematician and scholar.


File:First view of Earth from Moon.jpg|link=Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|1966: [[Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|Lunar Orbiter 1]] takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
File:First view of Earth from Moon.jpg|link=Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|1966: [[Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|Lunar Orbiter 1]] takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.


||1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
||1973: A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".


||Hellmuth Kneser (d. 23 August 1973) was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds. His proof originated the concept of normal surface, a fundamental cornerstone of the theory of 3-manifolds.
||1973: Hellmuth Kneser dies ... mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds. His proof originated the concept of normal surface, a fundamental cornerstone of the theory of 3-manifolds.


||1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
||1982: Stanford Moore dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Warren Perry Mason (d. 23 August 1986) was an American electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs.  He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic.
||1986: Warren Perry Mason dies ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs.  He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic.


||Hans Lewy (d. 23 August 1988) was a German born American mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic.
||1988: Hans Lewy dies ... mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations and on the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic.


File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as [[AESOP]].
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as [[AESOP]].
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|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


||1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.
||1991: The World Wide Web is opened to the public.


File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1999: Biochemist and crystallographer [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] dies.  He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1999: Biochemist and crystallographer [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] dies.  He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.


||Leopold Karl Schmetterer (d. 23 August 2004) was an Austrian mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic.
||2004: Leopold Karl Schmetterer dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability, and statistics. Pic.


||James Burton Serrin (d. 23 August 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, and a professor at University of Minnesota.
||2012: James Burton Serrin dies ... mathematician, and a professor at the University of Minnesota.


File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: Reality TV show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: Reality TV show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.


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Revision as of 19:51, 16 August 2018

  • 1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

    1638: Descartes' proposal. René Descartes, in a letter to Marin Mersenne, proposed his folium (x-cubed + y-cubed = 2axy) as a test case to challenge Pierre de Fermat's differentiation techniques. To Descartes' embarrassment, Fermat's method worked.

  • 1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

    1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.

  • 1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

    1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

  • 2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

    2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

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