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||1551 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
File:Bernoulli_wappen.png|link=Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|1789: Advances in [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|dynastic cellular automata theory]] reveal new members of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].


File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]], who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]], who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
||1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925)
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats alleged criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat.


File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.


||Osip Ivanovich Somov (d. 8 May 1876, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician.
File:Renato Caccioppoli.jpg|link=Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|1959: Mathematician [[Renato Caccioppoli (nonfiction)|Renato Caccioppoli]] takes his own life.  Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.
 
||1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
 
||1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
 
||Karol Borsuk (b. May 8, 1905) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.
 
||1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)
 
||1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
 
||1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
 
||Cassius Jackson Keyser (d. May 8, 1947) was an American mathematician
 
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1953: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].


File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.


||1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
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||1972 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)
 
||1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.


||1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)
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||1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
 
||2012 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
 
||2014 – Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS (b. 1921)
 
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
 
||2016 – Tom M. Apostol, American analytic number theorist (b. 1923)
 
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Latest revision as of 10:36, 7 May 2024

  • 1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

    1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

  • 1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

    1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

  • 1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

    1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

  • 1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.

    1959: Mathematician Renato Caccioppoli takes his own life. Caccioppoli contributed to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, and measure theory.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

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