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||1979: Giulio Natta dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1979: Giulio Natta dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1982: Salomon Bochner dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. | ||1980: George Pal dies ... animator and producer. Pic. | ||
||1982: Salomon Bochner dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. Pic. | |||
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. | 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. |
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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.