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||1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. | ||1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island. | ||
||Charles Bourseul (b. 28 April 1829) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. | |||
||Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (born 28 April 1831) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. | ||Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (born 28 April 1831) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. | ||
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1402: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl born. He will have an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he will build an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind will be allowed.
1774: Astronomer Francis Baily born. He will observe "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1847: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker uses number theory to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Mathematician Georgy Voronoy born. He will invent what are today called Voronoi diagrams or Voronoi tessellations.
1928: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker born. Shoemaker will be the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
1986: High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
1986: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane visits the stricken Chernobyl reactor, calls it "a waste of good fissionable material."
2017: New survey shows that Fantasy Voronoi diagram is more popular than Fantasy Football.