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||154 – Bardaisan, Syrian astrologer, scholar, and philosopher (d. 222)
||154: Bardaisan born ... astrologer, scholar, and philosopher.


||1382 – Nicole Oresme, French philosopher (b. 1325) polymath
||1382: Nicole Oresme dies ... philosopher ... polymath.


||1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
||1405: Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.


||1603 – Kenelm Digby, English astrologer, courtier, and diplomat (d. 1665)
||1603: Kenelm Digby born ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat.


||1653 – Sarah Good, American woman accused of witchcraft (d. 1692)
||1653: Sarah Good born ... woman accused of witchcraft.


||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785)
||1709: Johan Gottschalk Wallerius born ... chemist and mineralogist.


File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.  
File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.  


||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825)
||1754: Thomas Bowdler born ... physician and philanthropist.


||Professor Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (b. 11 July 1774) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. Pic.
||1774: Professor Robert Jameson born ... naturalist and mineralogist. Pic.


File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
||1811: William Robert Grove born ... judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology. He invented the Grove voltaic cell. Pic.


File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1812: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1812: Physicist and academic [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).


||Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD[2] (b. 1857) was a Northern Irish[3] physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.
||1857: Joseph Larmor born ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.


||1882 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (d. 1946)
||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger.


||Jacob David Tamarkin (b. 11 July 1888) was a Russian-American mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis.
||1888: Jacob David Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis.


||1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
||1893: The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.


||1895 – Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.
||1895: Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology to scientists.


||1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
||1897: Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.


||Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (b. July 11, 1902) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.
||1902: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit born ... physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.


||Helmut Grunsky (b. 11 July 1904) was a German mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.
||1904: Helmut Grunsky born ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis and geometric function theory. He introduced Grunsky's theorem and the Grunsky inequalities. Pic.


||1909 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
||1909: Simon Newcomb dies ... astronomer and mathematician.


||1916 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1916: Alexander Prokhorov born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1924 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2005)
||1924: César Lattes born ... physicist and academic.


||Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (b. July 11, 1927) was an American engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.
||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.


File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] born.  He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and academic [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] born.  He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.


||1934 – Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
||1934: Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.


File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1956: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1956: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.


||1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
||1962: First transatlantic satellite television transmission.


||1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
||1962: Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.


File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
||1979: America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.


||1994 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
||1994: Gary Kildall dies ... computer scientist, founded Digital Research.


||1999 – Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945)
||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician.


||2013 – Emik Avakian, Iranian-American inventor (b. 1923)
||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor.


||Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (d. 11 July 2013) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
||2013: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn dies ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.


||2015 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (b. 1959)
||2015: Satoru Iwata dies ... game programmer and businessman.
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Revision as of 06:45, 1 September 2018

  • 1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

    1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.

  • 1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

    1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

  • 1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

    1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).

  • 1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

    1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.

  • 1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

    1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.

  • 1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

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