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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=Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|1869: [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]] uses his doctrine of eternal return to hunt down and capture [[math criminals]].
||1892: August Wilhelm von Hofmann dies ... chemist and academic.


||1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
||1895: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician.


||Karl Christoph Vogt (d. 5 May 1895) was a German scientist, philosopher and politician.
||1895: Stefan Bergman born ... mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.


||Stefan Bergman (b. 5 May 1895) was a Polish-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis. He is best known for the kernel function he discovered while at Berlin University in 1922. This function is known today as the Bergman kernel. Pic.
||1897: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi born ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
 
||Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (b. 5 May 1897) was an Italian mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.


||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.
||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.
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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]].
||1932: Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut


File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1943: Alleged incident of [[Janet Beta at ENIAC|radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence]] as part of the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1943: Alleged incident of [[Janet Beta at ENIAC|radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence]] as part of the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.


||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.
||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.


||Castle Yankee was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American tests of thermonuclear bombs. It was originally intended as a test of a TX-16/EC-16 bomb, but the design became obsolete after the Castle Bravo test was successful. The test device was replaced with a TX-24/EC-24 bomb which was detonated on May 5, 1954, at Bikini Atoll. Pic.
||1954: Castle Yankee was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American tests of thermonuclear bombs. It was originally intended as a test of a TX-16/EC-16 bomb, but the design became obsolete after the Castle Bravo test was successful. The test device was replaced with a TX-24/EC-24 bomb which was detonated on May 5, 1954, at Bikini Atoll. Pic.


||1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
||1957: Leopold Löwenheim dies ... mathematician and logician.


||1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
||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


||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
||1995: Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington dies ... engineer and businessman who invented and perfected the float glass process for commercial manufacturing of plate glass. Pic: http://100th.nsg.com/story/02/


||Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman (d. May 5, 2007) was an American engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.
||2007: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman dies ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic.


||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."
||2008: Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. dies ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."


File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|2012: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|2012: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] dies. His work included 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."


Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'', stolen last year by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.  
Creature_3.jpg|link=Creature 3 (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Creature 3 (nonfiction)|Creature 3]]'', stolen last year by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.  


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  • 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.

  • 1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

    1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

  • 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'.

  • 1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.

    1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.

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    1833: Mathematician and academic Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations.

  • 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.

  • 1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.

    1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.

  • 2012: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

    2012: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

  • 2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

    2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

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