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File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.
File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.


||1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
||1539: In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.


||1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
||1631: Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.


||1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
||1739: Digesting Duck demonstrated for the first time.


||Eugène Charles Catalan (30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem.
||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist.


File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter [[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]] uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].


||1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
||1814: Eugène Charles Catalan born ... mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem.


||1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
||1846: Peter Carl Fabergé born ... goldsmith and jeweler.


||1869 – Grace Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1951)
||1869: Grace Andrews born ... mathematician.


||1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
||1899: Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.


||1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
||1901: Victor D'Hondt dies ... mathematician, lawyer, and jurist.


||1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
||1908: Hannes Alfvén born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1909: Norris Edwin Bradbury born ... physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic.
||1909: Norris Edwin Bradbury born ... physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic.


||1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1912: Julius Axelrod born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1924 – Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat.


||1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||Solomon Wolf Golomb (b. May 30, 1932) was an American mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic.
||1932: Solomon Wolf Golomb born ... mathematician, engineer, and adacemic. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Pic.


||1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
||1941: World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.


||1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
||1943: The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


||1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
||1961: The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
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File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: NASA launches the [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: NASA launches the [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.


||1975 – European Space Agency is established.
||1975: European Space Agency is established.


||1985 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)
||1985: Igor Kurnosov born ... chess player.


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1989: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1989: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."


||Antoni Zygmund (d. May 30, 1992) was a Polish mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis.
||1992: Antoni Zygmund dies ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis.


||1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
||1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.


||2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
||2009: Ephraim Katzir dies ... biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel.


||2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Blue Green Spiral.jpg|link=Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Blue Green Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Blue Green Spiral.jpg|link=Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Blue Green Spiral (nonfiction)|Blue Green Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].

Revision as of 21:48, 9 December 2018

  • 1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

    1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.

  • 1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter Samuel Bentham uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

    1813: Engineer, naval architect, and crime-fighter Samuel Bentham uses Pantopticon technology to locate and capture alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

  • 1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

    1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.

  • 1989: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

    1989: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

  • 2016: Blue Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Blue Green Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.

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