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| File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon (nonfiction)|gnomon]]-builder [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo Toscanelli]] accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
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| File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. | | File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. |
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| ||1836 – Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)
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| ||1845 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
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| ||1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
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| ||Edward Weston (b. May 9, 1850) was an English-born American chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Pic.
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| ||Gilbert Ames Bliss, (b. 9 May 1876), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.
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| ||Henry John Kaiser (b. May 9, 1882) was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding.
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| ||1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
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| ||Arend Heyting (b. 9 May 1898) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. He will give the first formal development of intuitionistic logic in order to codify Brouwer's way of doing mathematics. Pic.
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| ||George Johnston Allman (d. 9 May 1904) was an Irish professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.
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| ||1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
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| ||Hilde Levi (b. 9 May 1909) was a German-Danish physicist. She was a pioneer of the use of radioactive isotopes in biology and medicine, notably the techniques of radiocarbon dating and autoradiography. In later life she became a scientific historian. Pic.
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| ||1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
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| File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
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| ||1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
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| |File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1940: [[John Brunner]] uses a [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to compute the "near certain probability" that the Royal Navy will succeed in capturing the [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]].
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| File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. | | File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. |
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| ||1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
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| ||Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 9 May 1945) was a German civil engineer and SS commander during the Nazi era. He oversaw SS construction projects and towards the end of World War II was put in charge of the V-2 missile and jet programmes. Pic.
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| |File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to pre-visualize [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883) Esteban Terrades i Illa (born Barcelona, 15 September 1883; died Madrid, 9 May 1950) also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences
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| ||U.S. nuclear test "George" of Operation Greenhouse test series, 9 May 1951. The "George" shot was a "science experiment" showing the feasibility of the Teller-Ulam design concept (which would itself be fully tested in "Ivy Mike").
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| File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system. | | File:West Ford needles and stamp.jpg|link=Project West Ford (nonfiction)|1963: [[Project West Ford (nonfiction)|Project West Ford]] launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system. |
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| ||1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
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| File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|1972: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about how the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] will play out.
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. | | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. |
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| File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1974: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] conducts debut performance of his new opera about [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon]].
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| ||1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
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| ||Ivan Morton Niven (d. May 9, 1999) was a Canadian-American mathematician, specializing in number theory. Pic.
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| |File:Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|2017: ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| Two_Bugs_Fighting.jpg|link=Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Two Bugs Fighting (nonfiction)|Two Bugs Fighting]]'' unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates [[Extract of Radium]].
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