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||Johann Faulhaber (b. 5 May 1580) was a German mathematician. Faulhaber's major contribution was in calculating the sums of powers of integers. Jacob Bernoulli makes references to Faulhaber in his Ars Conjectandi. Pic.
||1580: Johann Faulhaber born ... mathematician. Faulhaber's major contribution was in calculating the sums of powers of integers. Jacob Bernoulli makes references to Faulhaber in his Ars Conjectandi. Pic.


||Johann Tobias Mayer (b. 5 May 1752) was a German physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks.  Pic.
||1752: Johann Tobias Mayer born ... physicist. He was mainly well known for his mathematics and natural science textbooks.  Pic.


||1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
||1809: Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.


||1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
||1818: Karl Marx born ... philosopher, sociologist, and journalist.


||1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
||1821: Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.


File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|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.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|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.
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||Francesco Giacomo Tricomi (b. 5 May 1897) was an Italian 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.


File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]].
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]].


|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations.
link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations.


||1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
||1920: Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.


||1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist and co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take MASER action to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.
||1921: Mavis Lilian Batey, MBE (née Lever; 5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013), was an English code-breaker during World War II. Pic: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-mavis-batey-8960761.html


||1927 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
||1921: Arthur Leonard Schawlow born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... co-inventor of the laser with Charles Townes. His central insight, which Townes overlooked, was the use of two mirrors as the resonant cavity to take MASER action to visible wavelengths. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work on lasers.
 
||1927: Sylvia Fedoruk born ... physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.


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
||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.

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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.

  • Link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)

    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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