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||Ibn Khaldun (b. 27 May 1332) was an Arab historiographer and historian.[8] He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography.
||1332: Ibn Khaldun born ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography.


||1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed.
||1525: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian dies ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed.


File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.
File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Factotum and regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] executed.


||1624 – Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580)
||1624: Diego Ramírez de Arellano dies ... sailor and cosmographer.


||Giovanni Battista Beccaria (d. 27 May 1781), Italian physicist,
||1781: Giovanni Battista Beccaria dies ... physicist.


||1857 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (d. 1928)
||1857: Theodor Curtius born ... chemist.


||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG.
||1869: Arvid Gerhard Damm born ... engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG.


||Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks (b. 27 May 1875) was a Swedish physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic.
||1875: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks born ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic.


||Alfred Swaine Taylor (d. 27 May 1880 in London) was an English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic.
||1880: Alfred Swaine Taylor dies ... toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic.


||1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
||1896: Aleksandr Stoletov dies ... physicist, engineer, and academic.


File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
File:John Douglas Cockcroft 1961.jpg|link=John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate [[John Cockcroft (nonfiction)|John Cockcroft]] born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.


||1898 – David Crosthwait, African-American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976)
||1898: David Crosthwait born ... engineer, inventor and writer.


||Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (b. 27 May 1907) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic.
||1907: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert born ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic.


||1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
||1907: Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.


||1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
||1910: Robert Koch dies ... physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html
||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html
||1923: John Coleman Moore (May 27, 1923 – January 1, 2016) was an American mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore


File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
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||1950: John Torrence Tate Sr.  born ... physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.
||1950: John Torrence Tate Sr.  born ... physicist noted for his editorship of Physical Review between 1926 and 1950. He is the father of mathematician John Torrence Tate Jr.


||1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
||1962: The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.


||1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
||1965: Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.


||1987 – John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
||1987: John Howard Northrop dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||1988: Ernst Ruska dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
||2000: Kazimierz Leski dies ... engineer and pilot.


||2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, created the hot air balloon (b. 1919)
||2007: Ed Yost dies ... inventor, created the hot air balloon.


||2009 – Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917)
||2009: Abram Hoffer dies ... biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist.


||2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927)
||2012: Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic.


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  • 1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.

    1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.

  • 1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.

    1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

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