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File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1572: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] reveals new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Michael_Stifel.jpg|link=Michael Stifel (nonfiction)|1567: Mathematician, monk, and academic [[Michael Stifel (nonfiction)|Michael Stifel]] dies. Stifel was an Augustinian who became an early supporter of Martin Luther.


||1624 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (d. 1679)
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1860: On his phonautograph machine, [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.


||1770 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (d. 1831)
File:Flying Bison.jpg|link=Flying bison|1882: Large herd of [[Flying bison]] (''Bison pterobonasus'') swarms from Saint Paul, Minnesota to New Minneapolis, Canada.


||1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer, designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge (d. 1859)
File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1912: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] born. Seaborg will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.  


||1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and cinematographer (d. 1904)
File:Walter Kohn.jpg|link=Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate [[Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|Walter Kohn]] dies. Kohn developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.


||José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (b. 19 April 1832) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".
File:Great Nerd Giveaway Poster.png|link=Minicon 54 (nonfiction)|2019: The [[Minicon 54 (nonfiction)|Minicon 54 Great Nerd Giveaway]] begins. By the end of Minicon 54, hundreds of nerd items will have found new homes, generating an abundance of fun in the process.


||1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
||1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1912: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: ''[[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most prescient illustration of the decade".
File:Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859.jpg|link=Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|1914: Mathematician and philosopher [[Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce]] dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
||1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (d. 2008)
||1919 – J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (d. 1995)
||1921 – Mary Jackson, African American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005)
||1930 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist and academic (d. 2007)
||1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
||1951 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1862)
||1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1965: [[Brion Gysin]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to predict th eoutcome of [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lotteries]] with near-quantum accuracy.
||1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
||2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (b. 1891)
||2007 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (b. 1907)
||2015 – Alexander Dalgarno, English physicist and academic (b. 1928)
||2016 – Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932)
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Latest revision as of 05:01, 21 April 2022

  • 1567: Mathematician, monk, and academic Michael Stifel dies. Stifel was an Augustinian who became an early supporter of Martin Luther.

    1567: Mathematician, monk, and academic Michael Stifel dies. Stifel was an Augustinian who became an early supporter of Martin Luther.

  • 1860: On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

    1860: On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

  • 1882: Large herd of Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) swarms from Saint Paul, Minnesota to New Minneapolis, Canada.

    1882: Large herd of Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) swarms from Saint Paul, Minnesota to New Minneapolis, Canada.

  • 1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. Seaborg will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

    1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. Seaborg will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

  • 2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. Kohn developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

    2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. Kohn developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

  • 2019: The Minicon 54 Great Nerd Giveaway begins. By the end of Minicon 54, hundreds of nerd items will have found new homes, generating an abundance of fun in the process.

    2019: The Minicon 54 Great Nerd Giveaway begins. By the end of Minicon 54, hundreds of nerd items will have found new homes, generating an abundance of fun in the process.

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