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||1529 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
||1529: Michael Neander born ... mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)


File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born.  He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1693: Carpenter and clockmaker [[John Harrison (nonfiction)|John Harrison]] born.  He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.


||1715 William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787)
||1715: William Watson born ... physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787)


||1717 Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
||1717: Jacques Ozanam born ... mathematician and academic (b. 1640)


File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.


||Otto Wilhelm Fiedler (b. 3 April 1832) was a German-Swiss mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.
||1832: Otto Wilhelm Fiedler born ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry.


||Lucien de la Rive (April 3, 1834) was a Swiss physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity.
||1834: Lucien de la Rive born ... physicist. He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1841: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1841: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
||1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.


||1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
||1885: Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.


||1885 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
||1885: Bud Fisher born ... cartoonist.


||1888 The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
||1888: The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.


||Carl Gustav Axel von Harnack (d. 3 April 1888) was a German mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves.
||1888: Carl Gustav Axel von Harnack dies ... mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves.


||Hans Adolph Rademacher (b. 3 April 1892) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
||1892: Hans Adolph Rademacher born ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher


||1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
||1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.


||Reinhard Gehlen (b. 3 April 1902) was a German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War.
||1902: Reinhard Gehlen born ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War.


||Solomon Kullback (b. April 3, 1907) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov.
||1907: Solomon Kullback born ... cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov.


||Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (d. April 3, 1910) was a German chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic.
||1910: Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg dies ... chemist and pioneer of valence theory. He proposed that the difference of the maximum positive and negative valence of an element tends to be eight. This has come to be known as Abegg's rule. Pic.


||1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
||1922: Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


||1933 First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
||1933: First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.


||1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
||1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.


||1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges.
||1955: The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl'' against obscenity charges.


||1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
||1969: Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.


||1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
||1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.


||1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
||1975: Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.


||1976 David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900) who made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure.
||1976: David M. Dennison dies ... physicist and academic ... made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure.


||1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
||1981: The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.


||1988 Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
||1988: Milton Caniff dies ... cartoonist.


||Marion Franklin Tinsley (d. April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. Pic (nice).
||1995: Marion Franklin Tinsley dies ... mathematician and checkers player. He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived. Pic (nice).


||1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
||1996: Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.


File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1998: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] dies. She did pioneering work in [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
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File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


||2012 Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919)
||2012: Mingote dies ... cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919)


||2014 Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920) Airboy
||2014: Fred Kida dies ... illustrator ... Airboy


||2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
||2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.


|File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2017: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he trafficks in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
|File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|2017: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] denies accusations that he trafficks in illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
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