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1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

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 File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
-||Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAA (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
+File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] says he is "sick and tired of mopping up [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl]], among other things."
+||Sir John Carew Eccles (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
 File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.