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|File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|500BC: Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].


||1615 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1561)
File:Isaac Barrow.jpg|link=Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|1677: Mathematician and theologian [[Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|Isaac Barrow]] dies. Barrow played an early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus: he was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve.
 
||1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
 
||1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
 
||1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
 
File:Isaac Barrow.jpg|link=Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|1677: Mathematician and theologian [[Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|Isaac Barrow]] dies. He played an early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus.
 
||Major-General William Roy FRS, AS (b. 4 May 1726) was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain.


File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
||Louis Jacques Thénard (b. 4 May 1777), was a French chemist.


File:Thomas Henry Huxley.jpg|link=Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|1825: Biologist [[Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|Thomas Henry Huxley]] born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
File:Thomas Henry Huxley.jpg|link=Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|1825: Biologist [[Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|Thomas Henry Huxley]] born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.


||1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1771)
File:Joseph_Diez_Gergonne.jpg|link=Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician and logician [[Joseph Diez Gergonne (nonfiction)|Joseph Diez Gergonne]] dies. He contributed to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.  
 
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1860: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for use in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam or Mandelshtam (b. 4 May 1879) was a Soviet physicist.
 
||1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.


File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] born.  He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] born.  He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


||Lucien de la Rive (d. May 4, 1924) was a Swiss physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity.
File:Karl Jones photo by Steve Ozone.jpg|link=Karl Jones (nonfiction)|2019: Photograph of [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] taken by Steve Ozone.
 
||1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
 
File:Alice Beta Paragliding.jpg|link=Alice Beta Paragliding|1943: ''[[Alice Beta Paragliding]]'' published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program, although this is widely debated.
 
||1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
 
||1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
 
||1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
 
||1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
 
||1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
 
||William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (d. May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.
 
||1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
 
||2000 – Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909) Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir ForMemRS (d. May 4, 2000) was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948.
 
||Aleksander Ilyich Akhiezer (d. May 4, 2000) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, known for contributions to numerous branches of theoretical physics, including quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid state physics, quantum field theory, and the theory of plasma.
 
||2013 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 
||2014 – Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
 
||2014 – Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938)


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  • 1677: Mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow dies. Barrow played an early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus: he was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve.

    1677: Mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow dies. Barrow played an early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus: he was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve.

  • 1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.

    1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.

  • 1825: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

    1825: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

  • 1859: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne dies. He contributed to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.

    1859: Mathematician and logician Joseph Diez Gergonne dies. He contributed to the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noticing that every theorem in the plane connecting points and lines corresponds to another theorem in which points and lines are interchanged, provided that the theorem embodied no metrical notions.

  • 1921: Physicist Harry Daghlian born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1921: Physicist Harry Daghlian born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 2019: Photograph of Karl Jones taken by Steve Ozone.

    2019: Photograph of Karl Jones taken by Steve Ozone.

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