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File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. He translating ''Euclid's Elements'' into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time.
File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. He translating ''Euclid's Elements'' into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time.


||1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
||1686: Otto von Guericke dies ... physicist and politician.


||1722 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (d. 1789)
||1722: Petrus Camper born ... physician, anatomist, and physiologist.


||1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)
||1752: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach born ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist.


File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] publishes new theory of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
File:Jacques Binet.jpg|link=Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (nonfiction)|Jacques Philippe Marie Binet]] publishes new theory of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
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File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.


||1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)
||1871: Frank Schlesinger born ... astronomer and author.


||1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
||1871: John Herschel dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and chemist.


||1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
||1881: Theodore von Kármán born ... mathematician, physicist, and engineer.


||Richard Baldus (b. 11 May 1885) was a German mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.
||1885: Richard Baldus born ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.


||1887 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (b. 1802)
||1887: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault dies ... chemist and academic.


||Griffith Conrad Evans (b. 11 May 1887) was a mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s.
||1887: Griffith Conrad Evans born ... mathematician working for much of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He is largely credited with elevating Berkeley's mathematics department to a top-tier research department, having recruited many notable mathematicians in the 1930s and 1940s.


||1891 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1820)
||1891: Edmond Becquerel dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Public outrage in response to the short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' triggers a worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: Public outrage in response to the short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' triggers a worldwide outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]].
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|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov (b. 11 May 1912) was a Russian mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities.
||1912: Sergei Chernikov born ... mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities.


||1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist.


File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.


||1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
||1920: James Colosimo dies ... mob boss.


||1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
||1924: Eugene Dynkin born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system (d. 2002)
||1930: Edsger W. Dijkstra born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system.


||1934 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1852)
||1934: Orest Khvolson dies ... physicist and academic.


||1943 – Clarence Ellis, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
||1943: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic.


||Carlo Severini (d. 11 May 1951) was an Italian mathematician
||1951: Carlo Severini dies ... mathematician.


||Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov (d. May 11, 1955) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics. Pic.
||1955: Nikolay Krylov dies ... mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics. Pic.


||1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
||1960: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.


||1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
||1963: Herbert Spencer Gasser dies ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1972 – The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
||1972: The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.


||1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
||1981: Odd Hassel dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
||1985: Chester Gould dies ... cartoonist, created Dick Tracy.


||Leo Zippin (d. May 11, 1995) was an American mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic.
||1995: Leo Zippin dies ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic.


||1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
||1995: More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.


||1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
||1997: Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.


||1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
||1998: India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.


||2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1905)
||2002: Joseph Bonanno dies ... mob boss.


||2011 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
||2011: Maurice Goldhaber dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier.jpg|link=Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier|2018: ''[[Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier]]'' is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. Mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]] says he is "grateful for the kind words."
File:Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier.jpg|link=Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier|2018: ''[[Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier]]'' is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of [[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]] stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].
File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of [[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]] stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


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