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||878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
||878: Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.


File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born. He will  introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born. He will  introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.


||1639 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568) Galileo
||1639: Tommaso Campanella born ... astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568) cf. Galileo.


File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1670: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1670: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.


||Carl Wilhelm Scheele (d. 21 May 1786) was a Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist. He made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit. For example, Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine before Humphry Davy, among others. Pic.
||1786: Carl Wilhelm Scheele dies ... pharmaceutical chemist. He made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit. For example, Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine before Humphry Davy, among others. Pic.


||1792 – Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)
||1792: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis born ... mathematician and engineer.


||1792 – Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_Unzen_earthquake_and_tsunami
||1792: Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_Unzen_earthquake_and_tsunami


||Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (d. 21 May 1826), German scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. Pics.
||1826: Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771. Pics.


||1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
||1826: Georg von Reichenbach born ... maker of astronomical instruments who introduced the meridian, or transit, circle, a specially designed telescope for measuring both the time when a celestial body is directly over the meridian (the longitude of the instrument) and the angle of the body at meridian passage. By 1796 he was engaged in the construction of a dividing engine, a machine used to mark off equal intervals accurately, usually on precision instruments. Pic.


||1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
||1851: Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.


||Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat (b. 21 May 1858) was a French mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis. Pic.
||1856: Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
 
||1858: Édouard Jean-Baptiste Goursat born ... mathematician, now remembered principally as an expositor for his Cours d'analyse mathématique, which appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century. It set a standard for the high-level teaching of mathematical analysis, especially complex analysis. Pic.


||1860 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
||1860 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
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File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups.  He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups.  He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.


||1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
 
|link=1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: Bad weather forces aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, after flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1927: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


||link=1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1927: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler [[Henrietta Bolt]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop round-the-world flight.


File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: Bad weather forces [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.


||1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
||1934: Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.


||1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
||1937: A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


||1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
||1951: The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.


File:Ernst Zermelo 1900s.jpg|link=Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|1953: Logician and mathematician [[Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]] dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.
File:Ernst Zermelo 1900s.jpg|link=Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|1953: Logician and mathematician [[Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]] dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.


||1964 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
||1964: James Franck dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882)
||1965: Geoffrey de Havilland dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito.


||Johannes Peter Letzmann (d. 21 May 1971) was an Estonian meteorologist, and a pioneering tornado researcher. His prolific output related to severe storms concepts included: developing tornado damage studies, atmospheric vortices, theoretical studies and laboratory simulations, tornado case studies, and observation programs. It generated extensive analysis techniques and insights on tornadoes at a time when there was still very little research on the subject in the United States. Pic.
||1971: Johannes Peter Letzmann dies ... meteorologist, and a pioneering tornado researcher. His prolific output related to severe storms concepts included: developing tornado damage studies, atmospheric vortices, theoretical studies and laboratory simulations, tornado case studies, and observation programs. It generated extensive analysis techniques and insights on tornadoes at a time when there was still very little research on the subject in the United States. Pic.


|link=|1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
|link=|1972: Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.


||1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
||1981: The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.


||1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
||1991: Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.


||2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
||2001: French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.


||2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
||2010: JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.


||Ray Alden Kunze (d. May 21, 2014) was an American mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis.
||2014: Ray Alden Kunze dies ... mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis.


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  • 1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer born. He will introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.

    1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer born. He will introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.

  • 1670: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

    1670: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

  • 1923: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups. He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

    1923: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups. He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

  • 1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1927: Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1927: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop round-the-world flight.

    1927: Pilot, engineer, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop round-the-world flight.

  • 1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1953: Logician and mathematician Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.

    1953: Logician and mathematician Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.

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