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|File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1601: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] warns [[The Eel]] to "stay out of Dutch waters."
||1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan mathematician and physicist (b. 1568)
||1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1789: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
File:Jean-André Lepaute.jpg|link=Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|1789: Clockmaker [[Jean-André Lepaute (nonfiction)|Jean-André Lepaute]] dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.


||1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1854)
File:Macedonio_Melloni.jpg|link=Macedonio Melloni (nonfiction)|1798: Physicist and academic [[Macedonio Melloni (nonfiction)|Macedonio Melloni]] born. Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.
 
||Otto Linné Erdmann (b. 11 April 1804) was a German chemist.
 
||Thomas Hornsby FRS (b. 11 April 1810 in Oxford) was a British astronomer and mathematician.
 
||1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
 
||Otto Linné Erdmann (d. 9 October 1869) was a German chemist.
 
||Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (d. 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots.
 
||1895 – Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (b. 1830)
 
||1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, African-American chemist and academic (d. 1975)
 
||Alberto González Domínguez (b. 11 April 1904) was an Argentine mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.
 
||1908 – Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)


File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1914: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
File:Dorothy Lewis Bernstein.jpg|link=Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|1914: Mathematician [[Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (nonfiction)|Dorothy Lewis Bernstein]] born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
||Leo Moser (b. April 11, 1921) was an Austrian-Canadian mathematician, best known for his polygon notation.
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1923: Outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]] in Seattle and Portland blamed on new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1926 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2007)
||1947 – Lev Bulat, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 2016)
File:Kashmir Princess.jpg|link=Kashmir Princess bombing (nonfiction)|1955: The Air India [[Kashmir Princess bombing (nonfiction)|Kashmir Princess]] is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1956: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] escapes from [[The Nacreum]], says he has been framed for crimes he did not commit by the enemies of Cornelius Drebbel.
||1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.


File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.
File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.
||1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.


File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] lander is turned off when its batteries fail.
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] lander is turned off when its batteries fail.
||1987 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
||1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2006: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] spacecraft arrives at Venus after 153 days of journey, and begins continuously sending back science data from its polar orbit around Venus.
||2003 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)
||2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.


File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft.


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  • 1789: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

    1789: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute dies. He was an innovator, introducing numerous improvements in clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.

  • 1798: Physicist and academic Macedonio Melloni born. Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.

    1798: Physicist and academic Macedonio Melloni born. Melloni will demonstrate that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light.

  • 1914: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

    1914: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein born. She will be the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

  • 1962: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.

    1962: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya dies. He created the first artificial snowflakes.

  • 1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the Viking 2 lander is turned off when its batteries fail.

    1980: Viking program: After operating on the surface of Mars for 1316 days (1281 sols), the Viking 2 lander is turned off when its batteries fail.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the Viking 2 spacecraft.

    2017: Dennis Paulson calls for a moment of silence in recognition of the thirty-seventh anniversary of NASA switching off the Viking 2 spacecraft.

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