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File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1482: Mathematician and astronomer [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli]] dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years.
File:Toscanelli.jpg|link=Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|1482: Mathematician and astronomer [[Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (nonfiction)|Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli]] dies. Thanks to his long life, his intelligence and his wide interests, Toscanelli was one of the central figures in the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Florence in its early years.


||1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
||1566: Leonhart Fuchs dies ... physician and botanist.


File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1600: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] publish his groundbreaking translation of ''Euclid's Elements'' into [[Gnomon algorithm]] statements.
File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1600: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] publish his groundbreaking translation of ''Euclid's Elements'' into [[Gnomon algorithm]] statements.


||1787 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)
||1787: William Watson dies ... physician, physicist, and botanist.


||1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
||1788: Augustin-Jean Fresnel born ... physicist and engineer.


||1810: Friedrich Bessel became director of the new observatory at Konigsberg. In 1838 he will be the first to accurately measure the parallax of a star. Pic.
||1810: Friedrich Bessel became director of the new observatory at Konigsberg. In 1838 he will be the first to accurately measure the parallax of a star. Pic.


||Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (10 May 1821), was an Italian historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic.
||1821: Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi born ... historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic.


||Paolo Ruffini (d. 1822) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher.
||1822: Paolo Ruffini dies ... mathematician and philosopher.


||Thomas Young (d. 10 May 1829) was an English polymath and physician. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)
||1829: Thomas Young dies ... polymath and physician. Young made notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)


||Diederik Johannes Korteweg (d. 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.
||1847: Wilhelm Killing born ... mathematician and academic.


||1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (d. 1923)
||1849: Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.


||1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
||1884: Charles Adolphe Wurtz dies ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds.


||Charles Adolphe Wurtz (d. 10 May 1884) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds
||1899: Otakar Borůvka born ... mathematician best known today for his work in graph theory. Pic.


File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
File:Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.jpg|link=Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|1900: Astronomer and astrophysicist [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]] born. Her doctoral thesis will establish that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
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File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1900: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] uses her power of Admonishment to stop would-be kidnappers from abducting the newborn [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]]. The kidnapping attempt is widely believed to be the work of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1900: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] uses her power of Admonishment to stop would-be kidnappers from abducting the newborn [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (nonfiction)|Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]]. The kidnapping attempt is widely believed to be the work of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


||John Desmond Bernal (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was a scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society.
||1901: John Desmond Bernal born ... scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal was a political supporter of Communism and wrote popular books on science and society.


File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1906: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] born. A notorious killer, he will fall to his death in 1941 while under police custody, ostensibly a failed escape attempt but widely believed to be murder.
File:Abe Reles.jpg|link=Abe Reles (nonfiction)|1906: New York mobster and hit man [[Abe Reles (nonfiction)|Abe Reles]] born. A notorious killer, he will fall to his death in 1941 while under police custody, ostensibly a failed escape attempt but widely believed to be murder.


||1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
||1910: Stanislao Cannizzaro dies ... chemist and academic.


||1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
||1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.


||1928 – Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)
||1928: Lothar Schmid born ... chess player.


||Kurt Schütte, the last of Hilbert's 75 doctoral students, defended his dissertation on logic.
||1933: Kurt Schütte, the last of Hilbert's 75 doctoral students, defended his dissertation on logic.


||1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
||1933: Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.


||1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
||1941: Diederik Johannes Korteweg dies ... mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries.


||1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
||1941: World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.


||Hassler Whitney (d. May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.
||1946: First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
 
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1958: [[Chrome Plover]], the famed [[musical electroplating ensemble]], perform new work in tribute to [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]].


File:The_Eel_v_Neptune_Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel [[The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|stops aquatic cryptid Neptune Slaughter from sabotaging Operation Sandblast]].
File:The_Eel_v_Neptune_Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel [[The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|stops aquatic cryptid Neptune Slaughter from sabotaging Operation Sandblast]].
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File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.


|File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1967: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series admits to illegal modification of [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]].
||1989: Hassler Whitney dies ... mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersions, characteristic classes, and geometric integration theory.


||1992 – K. G. Ramanathan, Indian mathematician (b. 1920)
||1992: K. G. Ramanathan dies ... mathematician.


||2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
||2002: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.


||Dr John Paul Wild (d. 10 May 2008) was a British-born Australian scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic.
||2008: Dr John Paul Wild dies ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic.


File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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