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||1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
||1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon born ... mystic.


||Samuel Molyneux FRS (d. 13 April 1728), son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland.
||1728: Samuel Molyneux dies ... member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. Pic: http://www.npgprints.com/image/27750/john-brooks-robert-hunter-samuel-molyneux-madden


File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.


||1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (d. 1868)
||1780: Alexander Mitchell born ... engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse.


||1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart.
||1794: Jean Pierre Flourens born ... physiologist and academic ... Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart.


||1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889) Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (b. 13 April 1808) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
||1808: Antonio Meucci born ... engineer and inventor ... an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.


||Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (b. 13 April 1823) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.
||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.


||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, at Bristol
||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, at Bristol


||1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer.


||1851 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (d. 1928)
||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist.


||1851 – William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (d. 1896)
||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist.


||1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788) Leopold Gmelin (2 August 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was professor at the University of Heidelberg among other things, he worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test.
||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test.


||1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.


||Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes (b. April 13, 1871) was a South African astronomer.
||1871: Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes born ... astronomer.


||1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
||1873: The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.


||Francesco Severi (b. 13 April 1879) was an Italian mathematician.
||1879: Francesco Severi born ... mathematician.


||1889 – Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (d. 1958)
||1889: Herbert Yardley born ... cryptologist and author.


||1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the Radar (d. 1973)
||1892: Robert Watson-Watt born ... engineer, invented the Radar.


||Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (d. 13 April 1894), was an Italian historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic.
||1894: Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi died ... historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic.


||1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble.


||Bruno Benedetto Rossi (b. 13 April 1905) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.
||1905: Bruno Benedetto Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays.


||1909 – Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1984)
||1909: Stanislaw Ulam born ... mathematician and academic.


||Max Jammer (born Moshe Jammer) (b. April 13, 1915), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic.
||1915: Max Jammer born ... physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic.


||1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
||1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.


||1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
||1920: Roberto Calvi born ... banker.


||1923: Mathematician and academic Pieter Hendrik Schoute dies. Pic.
||1923: Mathematician and academic Pieter Hendrik Schoute dies. Pic.
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File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.


||1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863)
||1941: Annie Jump Cannon dies ... astronomer and academic.


||1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
||1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.


||Ernst Cassirer (d. April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Pic.
||1945: Ernst Cassirer born ... philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Pic.


||1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
||1945: World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.


||1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah.
||1948: In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah.


File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which "forecast the emergence of [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] within a year."
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which "forecast the emergence of [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] within a year."
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File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.


||1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
||1960: The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.


||1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
||1970: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.


||1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
||1974: Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.


||1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
||1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.


||1992 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
||1992: Feza Gürsey dies ... mathematician and physicist.


File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

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  • 1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

    1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

  • 1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

    1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

  • 1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

    1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

  • 1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • 1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."

    1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."

  • 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

    1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

  • 1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

    1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

  • 2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

    2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

  • 2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

    2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

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