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File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.


||Gentile Gentili da Foligno (died 18 June 1348) was an Italian professor and doctor of medicine.  He was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341). Pic.
||1348: Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies ... professor and doctor of medicine.  He was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341). Pic.


File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1563: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1563: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1650 – Christoph Scheiner, German priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1575)
||1650: Christoph Scheiner dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer.


||1772 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician and reformer (b. 1700)
||1772: Gerard van Swieten dies ... physician and reformer.


||Denison Olmsted (b. June 18, 1791) was an American physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.
||1791: Denison Olmsted born ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon.


||1799 – William Lassell, English astronomer and merchant (d. 1880) William Lassell, FRS FRSE FRSL FRAS (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.
||1799: William Lassell born ... astronomer and merchant ... remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites.


||1845 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922) Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.
||1845: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran born ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.


||1858 – Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
||1858: Andrew Forsyth born ... mathematician and academic.


||1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
||1858: Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.


||Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (b. 18 June 1865)
||1865: Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels born.


||Thaddeus Cahill (18 June 1867 – 12 April 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. His idea proved to be fruitful, nearly a century later, with the advent of streaming media. Pic.
||1867: Thaddeus Cahill born ... inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. His idea proved to be fruitful, nearly a century later, with the advent of streaming media. Pic.


||1870 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1954)
||1870: Édouard Le Roy born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
||1873: Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.


||1877 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (d. 1960)
||1877: James Montgomery Flagg born ... painter and illustrator.


||Per Teodor Cleve (d. 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.
||1905: Per Teodor Cleve dies ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite.


||1913 – Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic.
||1910: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.


||1915 – Alice T. Schafer, American mathematician (d. 2009)
||1913: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic.


||1918 – Jerome Karle, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1915: Alice T. Schafer born ... mathematician.


||Johann Heinrich Graf (d. 17 June 1918) was a Swiss mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.
||1918: Jerome Karle born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.


||1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
||1922 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1851)

Revision as of 16:36, 27 August 2018

  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1563: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1563: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

    1928: Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

  • 2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

    2017: Culvert Origenes and The Governess wins Pulitzer Prize for Best Historical Illustration.

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