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||Johann Faulhaber (b. 5 May 1580) was a German mathematician. Faulhaber's major contribution was in calculating the sums of powers of integers. Jacob Bernoulli makes references to Faulhaber in his Ars Conjectandi. Pic.
File:Ioannes Faulhaberus Mathematicus Imperialis Ulmæ Natus.png|link=Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|1580: Mathematician [[Johann Faulhaber (nonfiction)|Johann Faulhaber]] born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the ''p''-th powers of the first ''n'' positive integers.
 
||1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
 
||1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
 
||1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
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File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1868: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.


File:Nietzsche.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1869: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture [[math criminals]].
File:Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs.jpg|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.
 
||1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
 
||Karl Christoph Vogt (German: [foːkt]; originally Carl; d. 5 May 1895) was a German scientist, philosopher and politician.
 
||1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
 
|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations.
 
||1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
 
||1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take MASER action to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.
 
||1927 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)


File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]].


||1945 – World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
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||1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
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||1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
 
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses formalized definitions of the notions of angle and of curvature in terms of directly measurable physical quantities (ratios of distance values) to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
 
||Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (d. May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
 
||Mendel Sachs (d. May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
 
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."
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  • 1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

    1580: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber born. He will discover Faulhaber's formula, which expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers.

  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

    1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs will be the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

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