1857 – The first department store elevator
for passengers was installed at E.V. Haughwout & Co. in New York City. This
was a significant development towards the building of skyscrapers.
1882 – Amalie “Emmy” Noether was born in
Erlangen, Germany. Albert Einstein called her a mathematical genius. She broke
ground in theories of rings, fields and algebra and developed Noether’s theorem
which explained the fundamental connection between symmetry and conservation
laws.
1928 – Computer Pioneer Jean
Sammet Born
Jean
Sammet, an early pioneer of computing, is born in New York. Sammet attended
Mount Holyoke College and the University of Illinois, where she launched a
teaching career. Trained in math, she moved into industry in 1961, developing
the language FORMAC at IBM. The language was the first commonly used language
for manipulating non-numeric algebraic expressions. She also wrote one of the
classic histories of programming language in her book, Programming Language:
History and Fundamentals. Sammet passed away May 20, 2017.
1996 – The US space shuttle Atlantis docked
with the Russian space station Mir for the third time, and for the first time
dropped off a US astronaut. Shannon Lucid began her record-breaking stay on the
space station.
2001 – Mir Crashes Down in
Deorbit
It’s
called the “Deorbit” – Space Station Mir was a controlled re-entry into the
Earth’s atmosphere. Ultimately, the space station burned p over the ocean by
New Zealand. Some parts of Mir could survive the re-entry process, so putting
the ship over a large body of water was the best way to reduce casualties.
Still, New Zealand was at full alert if winds brought large pieces inland.
The official statement had Mir at complete Deorbit around
5:59:24 GMT.
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