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||April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse may | File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse of Odysseus (nonfiction)|April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's ''Odyssey'' contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world." The passage happens in the context of a new moon, a necessary precondition for a full solar eclipse. | ||
||1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557) | ||1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557) | ||
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April 16, 1178 BC: A solar eclipse occurs. Homer's Odyssey contains a passage which may reference the eclipse: "The Sun has been obliterated from the sky, and an unlucky darkness invades the world." The passage happens in the context of a new moon, a necessary precondition for a full solar eclipse.
1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series explains why Colonel Zersetzung failed to detonate the Tybee Bomb.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.