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||699 | ||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. | ||
||1274 | ||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer (b. 1201) | ||
||1541 | ||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. | ||
||1694 | ||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768) | ||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | ||
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File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
||1810 | ||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. | ||
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]]. | ||
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | ||
File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1878 | ||1878: Leopold Löwenheim born ... mathematician and logician. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Edward Sabine dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist. | ||
||1886 | ||1886: Chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reports that he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||
||1904 | ||1904: Frank Scott Hogg born ... astronomer and academic (d. 1951) | ||
||1909 | ||1909: The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. | ||
||1911 | ||1911: Bronisław Żurakowski born ... pilot and engineer. | ||
||Ernst Witt | ||1911: Ernst Witt born ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | ||
File:Maurice Vincent Wilkes.jpg|link=Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|1913: Computer scientist and physicist [[Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|Maurice Wilkes]] born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing. | File:Maurice Vincent Wilkes.jpg|link=Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|1913: Computer scientist and physicist [[Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|Maurice Wilkes]] born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing. | ||
||Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. | ||1914: Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. born ... theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1915: Paul Castellano born ... gangster. | ||
|| | ||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1921: Violette Szabo born ... secret agent. | ||
|| | ||1931: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō dies ... Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. | ||
|| | ||1932: Adelaide Ames dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||
|| | ||1936: Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | ||
|| | ||1937: Robert Coleman Richardson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||1943: Karl Landsteiner dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
|| | ||1944: World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. | ||
|| | ||1946: Candace Pert born ... neuroscientist and pharmacologist. | ||
|| | ||1948: William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. | ||
|| | ||1951: George Udny Yule dies ... statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic. | ||
| | ||1955: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer. | ||
|| | ||1959: Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz dies ... mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1963: Morgan Ward dies mathematician and academic. Ward's research interests included the study of recurrence relations and the divisibility properties of their solutions, diophantine equations including Euler's sum of powers conjecture and equations between monomials, abstract algebra, lattice theory and residuated lattices, functional equations and functional iteration, and numerical analysis. Obit: https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/1-3/obit-ward.pdf Birth date unknown. Pic: http://www.pma.caltech.edu/content/morgan-ward-prize | ||
|| | ||1974: The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. | ||
|| | ||1975: Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. | ||
|| | ||1990: Hans Wilhelm Eduard Schwerdtfeger dies ... mathematician who worked in Galois theory, matrix theory, theory of groups and their geometries, and complex analysis. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1997: Robert Wertheimer Frucht dies ... mathematician; his research specialty was graph theory and the symmetries of graphs. He is known for Frucht's theorem, the result that every group can be realized as the group of symmetries of an undirected graph, and for the Frucht graph, one of the two smallest cubic graphs without any nontrivial symmetries. Pic = Frucht's graph. | ||
|| | ||2000: The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. | ||
| | ||2006: Tommy Wonder dies ... magician. | ||
||2010: Harald Keres dies ... physicist and academic. | |||
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.