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||1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
||1521: Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.


||1755 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1836)
||1755: Marc-Antoine Parseval born ... mathematician and theorist.


||1788 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist, and writer (d. 1863)
||1788: Charles Robert Cockerell born ... architect, archaeologist, and writer.


File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1791: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] born.  He will co-invent the Morse code.
File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1791: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] born.  He will co-invent the Morse code.


||Andrew Talcott (b. 1797) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee.  
||1797: Andrew Talcott born ... civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee.  


||1820 – Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903)
||1820: Herbert Spencer born ... biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher.


||Paul Albert Gordan (b. 27 April 1837) was a German mathematician. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Pic.
||1837: Paul Albert Gordan born ... mathematician. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Pic.


||1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
||1861: American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.


File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1869: Only known copy of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Twain]] and [[Wallace War-Heels|War-Heels]] will soon team up to recover the illustration.
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1869: Only known copy of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Twain]] and [[Wallace War-Heels|War-Heels]] will soon team up to recover the illustration.


||Loftus Perkins (d. 27 April 1891) was an English engineer, particularly involved in developing the practical technologies of central heating and refrigeration. Pic.
||1891: Loftus Perkins dies ... engineer, particularly involved in developing the practical technologies of central heating and refrigeration. Pic.


||1896 – Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor of nylon (d. 1937)
||1896: Wallace Carothers born ... chemist and inventor of nylon.


||1913 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (d. 2004)
||1913": Philip Abelson born ... physicist and author.


File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''.
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''.


||1920 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
||1920: Mark Krasnosel'skii born ... mathematician and academic.


||1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
||1932: Gian-Carlo Rota born ... mathematician and philosopher.


||1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
||1936: Karl Pearson dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
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File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.


||Michel Marie Deza (b. 27 April 1939) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.
||1929: Michel Marie Deza born ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. Pic.


||Guido Castelnuovo (d. 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant. Pic.
||1952: Guido Castelnuovo dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant. Pic.


File:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions [[Gnotilus]] and [[Forbidden Ratio]].
File:Components of a Nomogram.png|link=Nomogram (nonfiction)|1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|Nomogram]] gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions [[Gnotilus]] and [[Forbidden Ratio]].


||1953 – Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
||1953: Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate]]-related crimes.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate]]-related crimes.
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||1995: Peter Maurice Wright dies ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those.
||1995: Peter Maurice Wright dies ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those.
||2002: Felix Villars dies ... professor of physics at MIT. He is best known for the Pauli–Villars regularization, an important principle in quantum field theory Pic: http://news.mit.edu/2002/villars


||2011: Cyrus Derman dies ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.
||2011: Cyrus Derman dies ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic.

Revision as of 06:49, 26 August 2018

  • 1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.

    1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.

  • 1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.

    1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.

  • 1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.

    1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.

  • 1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.

  • 1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover Nomogram gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions Gnotilus and Forbidden Ratio.

    1953: In a landmark criminal mathematics trial, an undercover Nomogram gives testimony against criminal mathematical functions Gnotilus and Forbidden Ratio.

  • 1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

    1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

  • 1979: Orbital artificial intelligence AESOP makes contact with space activist and detective Gerard K. O'Neill.

    1979: Orbital artificial intelligence AESOP makes contact with space activist and detective Gerard K. O'Neill.

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    1992: Physicist and space activist Gerard Kitchen O'Neill dies. He invented particle storage rings and mass drivers; in the 1970s he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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