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||1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557)
File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse of Odysseus (nonfiction)|1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's ''Odyssey'' contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."


||1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744)
File:Petrus Apianus.jpg|link=Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|1495: Mathematician and astronomer [[Petrus Apianus (nonfiction)|Petrus Apianus]] born. Apianus' works on cosmography, ''Astronomicum Caesareum'' (1540) and ''Cosmographicus liber'' (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.


||1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
File:John_Hadley.jpg|link=John Hadley (nonfiction)|1682: Mathematician [[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]] born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.
 
||1756 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
 
||1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (b. 1719)
 
||1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
 
||1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
 
||1867 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912)
 
||1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
 
||1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845)
 
||1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988) Sydney Opera House
 
||1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)
 
||1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
 
||1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
 
||1919 – Thomas Willmore, English geometer and academic (d. 2005)
 
||1929 – Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (d. 2012)
 
||1936 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2015)
 
||1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
 
||1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
 
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
 
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Time-travelling combat physician [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Baron Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]].


File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]].
File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]].


File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series blamed for outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies.  Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
 
||1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 
||1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
 
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] dies.  He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
 
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|2008: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram says it "owes everything to [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Papa Lorenz]]."


File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
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Latest revision as of 07:04, 16 April 2022

  • 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

    1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world."

  • 1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. Apianus' works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

    1495: Mathematician and astronomer Petrus Apianus born. Apianus' works on cosmography, Astronomicum Caesareum (1540) and Cosmographicus liber (1524), will be extremely influential in his time.

  • 1682: Mathematician John Hadley born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

    1682: Mathematician John Hadley born. Hadley will lay claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claims the same. Hadley will also develope ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

  • 1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

    1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.

  • 2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

    2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. Lorenz introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.

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