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||529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
||1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist (d. 1806)
File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.  
File:Thomas_Bayes.gif|link=Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister [[Thomas Bayes (nonfiction)|Thomas Bayes]] dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.  
||1789 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722)


File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1789: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1789: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.


File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
||1823 – Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
||1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.


File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1833: Gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] works with [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] to recover stolen shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
File:Niles Cartouchian.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1833: Gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] works with [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] to recover stolen shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
||1921 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
||1927 – The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
||1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States of America)


||Lazăr Edeleanu (d. 7 April 1941) was a Romanian chemist of Jewish origin. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil.
||Lazăr Edeleanu (d. 7 April 1941) was a Romanian chemist of Jewish origin. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil.
||1955 – Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
||1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
||1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic and philosopher (b. 1595)
||1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
||1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
||1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
||1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
||1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
||1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
||1990 – Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
||1986 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
||1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953) Assassinated
||2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
||2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
||2014 – James Alexander Green, American-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)


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  • 1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister Thomas Bayes dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.

    1761: Mathematician, philosopher, and minister Thomas Bayes dies. He is remembered for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.

  • 1789: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1789: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier uses early version of Fourier series analysis to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.

    1811: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini born. He will become one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.

  • 1833: Gem detective Niles Cartouchian works with Hasan Tahsini to recover stolen shipment of time crystals (nonfiction).

    1833: Gem detective Niles Cartouchian works with Hasan Tahsini to recover stolen shipment of time crystals (nonfiction).

  • 1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
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