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File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782)
||1701: William Emerson born ... mathematician and academic


||1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
||1761: Thomas Simpson dies ... mathematician and academic


||1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.


||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.


||1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876)
||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company


||1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903)
||1832: Rudolf Lipschitz born ... mathematician and academic


||1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908)
||1852: Henri Julien born ... illustrator


File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.


||1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
||1878: The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.


||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958)
||1888: Archie Alexander born ... mathematician and engineer


||1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810) Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics
||1893: Ernst Kummer dies ... mathematician and academic, trained German army officers in ballistics.


||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948)
||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... biologist and ecologist


||1899 – Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. (d.1994)
||1899: Charlotte Auerbach born ... folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist.


||Pierre Victor Auger (b. 1899) was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics.
||1899: Pierre Victor Auger born ... physicist ... worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics.


||1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973) no pic
||1904: Hans Albert Einstein born ... engineer and educator. No pic.


||Joseph Lade Pawsey (b. 14 May 1908) was an Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic.
||1908: Joseph Lade Pawsey born ... scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic.


||William Stanley Jr. (d. May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic.
||1916: William Stanley Jr. ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic.


File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.  
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.  
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File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.


||Yuval Ne'eman (b. 14 May 1925) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
||1920: Ronald Montagu Burrows dies ... archaeologist who in 1895-96 conducted excavations in southwestern Greece at Pylos and the adjacent island of Sphacteria, revealing remains of Spartan fortifications. These confirmed the battle of 425 BC in the Peloponnesian War recorded by the ancient Athenian historian Thucydides. Burrows was by nature a classicist, whose primary purpose in seeking tangible evidence from the past was to verify ancient texts. At Rhitsona, in Boeotia (1905, 1907), his original goal was to find the temple of Delium, but without success. Instead he found and catalogued artifacts from Boeotian graves dating from the 7th and 6th century B.C. at the necropolis of Mykalessos, near Tanagra. In 1907, he published Recent Discoveries in Crete. Pic.


||1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015) -  also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.
||1925: Yuval Ne'eman born ... theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
 
||1928: Frederik H. Kreuger born ... engineer, author, and academic ... also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.


File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.


||Oliver Strachey (d. 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
||1960: Oliver Strachey dies cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
 
||1961: The world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
 
||1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.


||On May 14, 1961, the world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
||1995: Christian B. Anfinsen dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.


||1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2006: Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk dies ... physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic.


||Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (d. May 14, 2006) a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic.
||2006: Robert Bruce Merrifield dies ... was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.


||Robert Bruce Merrifield (d. May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic.


||2015 – Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937)
||2016: Darwyn Cooke dies ... comic book writer and artist.


||2016 – Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962)
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  • 1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

    1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

  • 1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

    1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

  • 1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

  • 1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

    1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

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