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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.
 
||Karl Hermann Knoblauch (b. 11 April 1820) was a German physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. Pic.
 
||1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)
 
||John Park Finley (b. April 11, 1854) was an American meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer who was the first person to study tornadoes intensively. He also wrote the first known book on the subject as well as many other manuals and booklets, collected vast climatological data, set up a nationwide weather observer network, started one of the first private weather enterprises, and opened an early aviation weather school. Pic.
 
||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)
 
||Donald Howard Menzel (b. April 11, 1901) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the United States. He discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae. Pic.
 
||Alberto González Domínguez (b. 11 April 1904) was an Argentine mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.
 
||Philip Hall FRS (b. 11 April 1904), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.
 
||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.
||Mauro Picone (d. 11 April 1977) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic.


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.
||Ivar Waller (d. 12 April 1991) was a Swedish professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic.
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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