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||394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written.
||394: The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written.


||1217 – Eustace the Monk, French pirate (b. 1170)
||1217: Eustace the Monk dies ... pirate.


||1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
||1456: The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.


||Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (b. August 24, 1561) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Pic - book cover.
||1561: Bartholomaeus Pitiscus born ... trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Pic: book cover.


||1595 – Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1546)
||1595: Thomas Digges dies ... mathematician and astronomer.


||Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (b. 24 August 1771), German scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. Pics.
||1771: Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach dies ... scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. Pics.


File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.


||Gregorio Fontana (d. 24 August 1803) was an Italian mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates.
||1803: Gregorio Fontana dies ... mathematician. He was chair of mathematics at the university of Pavia succeeding Roger Joseph Boscovich. He has been credited with the introduction of polar coordinates.


||Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez (b. 24 August 1821) was a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887.
||1821: Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez born ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887.


||1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
||1824: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar.


||1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
||1832: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot dies ... physicist and engineer.


||Henry Louis Rietz (b. 24 August 1875) was an American mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.  
||1875: Henry Louis Rietz born ... mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.  


File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1888: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1888: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
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File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1891: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the motion picture camera.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1891: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the motion picture camera.


||1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978)
||1893: Haim Ernst Wertheimer born ... biochemist and academic.


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1896: Author and crime-fighter [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] publishes new collection of short stories based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].  
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1896: Author and crime-fighter [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] publishes new collection of short stories based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].  


||1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
||1899: Albert Claude born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Jorge Luis Borges.jpg|link=Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator [[Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|Jorge Luis Borges]] born. His best-known books, ''Ficciones'' (''Fictions'') and ''El Aleph'' (''The Aleph''), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
File:Jorge Luis Borges.jpg|link=Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator [[Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|Jorge Luis Borges]] born. His best-known books, ''Ficciones'' (''Fictions'') and ''El Aleph'' (''The Aleph''), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.


||Arnold Ephraim Ross (b. August 24, 1906) was a mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students. Pic.
||1906: Arnold Ephraim Ross born ... mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students. Pic.


||Peter Thullen (b. 24 August 1907) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.
||1907: Peter Thullen born ... mathematician.


File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.


||Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov (b. August 24, 1923) was a Soviet mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.
||1923: Victor Mikhailovich Glushkov born ... mathematician, the founding father of information technology in the Soviet Union, and one of the founders of Cybernetics. Pic.


||1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
||1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).


||1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
||1941: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.


||Attilio Palatini (d. 24 August 1949) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.
||1949: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.


||1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
||1967: Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.


||Henry John Kaiser (d. August 24, 1967) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.
||1967: Henry John Kaiser dies ... industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.


||Canopus (also Opération Canopus in French) was the code name for France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted on August 24, 1968 at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China.
||1968:  Opération Canopus: France's first two-stage thermonuclear test, conducted at Fangataufa atoll. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China.


||1970 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
||1970: Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.


||Wallace John Eckert (d. August 24, 1971) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.
||1971: Wallace John Eckert dies ... astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM.


||1979 – Hanna Reitsch, Polish-German soldier and pilot dies.
||1979: Hanna Reitsch dies ... soldier and pilot dies.


||Boris Yakovlevich Levin (d. 24 August 1993) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.
||1993: Boris Yakovlevich Levin dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to function theory.


||2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926)
||2004: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross dies ... psychiatrist and academic.


||Roger Yonchien Tsien (d. August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist and academic.  He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Pic.
||2016: Roger Yonchien Tsien (d. August 24, 2016) was an American biochemist and academic.  He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, in collaboration with organic chemist Osamu Shimomura and neurobiologist Martin Chalfie. Pic.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars.  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars.  


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Revision as of 15:24, 17 August 2018

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

  • 1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    1889: Steganographic analysis of Judge Havelock With Glass reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

  • 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

    1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

  • 1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

    1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

  • 1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

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