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||1551 – Thomas Drury, English government informer and swindler (d. 1603)
||1551: Thomas Drury born ... government informer and swindler.


File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
File:Scopoli Giovanni Antonio.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
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File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]], who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]], who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.


||Loftus Perkins (b. 8 May 1834) was an English engineer, particularly involved in developing the practical technologies of central heating and refrigeration. Pic.
||1834: Loftus Perkins born ... engineer, particularly involved in developing the practical technologies of central heating and refrigeration. Pic.


||1859 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (d. 1925). Pic.
||1859: Johan Jensen born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats alleged criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat.
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats alleged criminal mastermind [[Baron Zersetzung]] in single combat.
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File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.


||Osip Ivanovich Somov (d. 8 May 1876, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician.
||1876: Osip Ivanovich Somov dies ... mathematician.


||1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
||1886: Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.


||1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-English mystic and author (b. 1831)
||1891: Helena Blavatsky dies ... mystic and author.


||Karol Borsuk (b. May 8, 1905) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.
||1904: Nikolaus Hofreiter born ... mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. Pic: http://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/node/33601


||1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (d. 1996)
||1905: Karol Borsuk born ... mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts (ARs) and absolute neighborhood retracts (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk–Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded Shape theory. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, 3-dimensional continuum which admits a fixed point free homeomorphism onto itself; also 2-dimensional, contractible polyhedra which have no free edge. His topological and geometric conjectures and themes stimulated research for more than half a century.


||8 May 1940, thereafter celebrated as "Foss's Day" in honour of Hugh Foss, the cryptanalyst who achieved the feat.
||1920: Saul Bass born ... graphic designer and director.


||1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
||1940: "Foss's Day" in honour of Hugh Foss, the cryptanalyst who achieved the feat. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Hugh-Foss


||1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
||1942: World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.


||Cassius Jackson Keyser (d. May 8, 1947) was an American mathematician
||1942: World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.


||Gilbert Ames Bliss, (d. 8 May 1951), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.
||1947: Cassius Jackson Keyser dies ... mathematician.
 
||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1953: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1953: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family]].


||Renato Caccioppoli (d. 8 May 1959) was an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic.
||1959: Renato Caccioppoli dies ... mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory. Pic.


File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
File:Henry Whitehead.jpg|link=J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[J. H. C. Whitehead (nonfiction)|J. H. C. Whitehead]] dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.


||1972 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
||1972: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
 
||1972 – Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)


||1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
||1972: Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist (b. 1921)


||1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)
||1973: A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.


||1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
||1988: Robert A. Heinlein dies ... science fiction writer and screenwriter.


||Boyce Dawkins McDaniel (d. May 8, 2002) was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer. Pic.
||1988: A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".


||Aryeh Dvoretzky (d. May 8, 2008) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. Pic.
||2002: Boyce Dawkins McDaniel dies ... nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer. Pic.


||2012 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
||2008: Aryeh Dvoretzky dies ... mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. Pic.


||2014 – Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS (b. 1921)
||2012: Maurice Sendak dies ... author and illustrator.


|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2014: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
||2014: Roger L. Easton dies ... scientist, co-invented the GPS.


||2016 – Tom M. Apostol, American analytic number theorist (b. 1923)
||2016: Tom M. Apostol dies ... analytic number theorist.


||Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (d. 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist.  Pic.
||2017: Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette dies ... mathematician and physicist.  Pic.


Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
Violet_Spiral_2.jpg|link=Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Violet Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral 2]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Center in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.


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