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||1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564)
File:Gerard_van_Swieten_Kaiserbild.jpg|link=Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|1700: Physician [[Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|Gerard van Swieten]] born.
 
||1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772) Vampires


File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1794: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1794: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.


File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] born. He will study physics with his father, and later work as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1860: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
 
||Pietro Abbati Marescotti (d. 1842) was an Italian mathematician
 
||Giuseppe Veronese (d. 7 May 1854) was an Italian mathematician.
 
||File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1871: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to expose [[Loaded dice (nonfiction)|loaded dice]].


File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1895: Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1895: Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.


File:Havelock.jpg|link=Judge Havelock|1895: [[Judge Havelock]] purchases signed first edition of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'' as a gift for Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]].
File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'' by H. G. Wells.
 
File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''.
 
||Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff or Aleksandrov (b. 7 May 1896), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology.
 
File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1896: Serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]] is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.
 
||Theodor Schneider (b. 7 May 1911) was a German mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem.
 
||1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016)
 
||1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
 
||1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
 
||1928 – The Jinan incident begins with Japanese forces killing the Chinese negotiating team in Jinan, China, and going on to kill over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
 
||1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.


File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].
File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].


||Hermann Lorenz Künneth (d. May 7, 1975 Erlangen) was a German mathematician and renowned algebraic topologist, best known for his contribution to what is now known as the Künneth theorem.
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||1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
 
||1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.


||2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
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||2014 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943)
 
||Elon Lages Lima (d. May 7, 2017) was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil.
 
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  • 1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

    1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

  • 1794: French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

    1794: French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

  • 1860: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

    1860: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

  • 1895: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

    1895: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

  • 1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

    1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

  • 1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

    1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

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