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File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.


||1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
||1611: The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.


||1683 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1613)
||1683: Stjepan Gradić dies ... philosopher and mathematician.


||1743: Mathematician Christian August Hausen dies. who is known for his research on electricity.
||1743: Mathematician Christian August Hausen dies. who is known for his research on electricity.
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File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1779: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1779: Mathematician and physicist [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]] publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1797 – Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
||1797: Abraham Pineo Gesner born ... physician and geologist.


||1802 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
||1802: Heinrich Gustav Magnus born ... chemist and physicist.


||1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer (d. 1929)
||1844: Elijah J. McCoy born ... inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines.
||Elijah J. McCoy (b. 1844) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines.


File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born.
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] born.


||1867 – Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster (d. 1930)
||1860: William Bayliss dies ... physiologist who, in 1902 co-discovered the first hormone (with the British physiologist Ernest H. Starling). They found a certain chemical substance is secreted when food comes into contact with part of the small intestine. This chemical substance, which they named secretin, upon being carried by the blood to the pancreas, stimulates the secretion of pancreatic juice, the most important of the digestive juices. They coined the word “hormone” based on a Greek word for “to set in motion.” Bayliss also studied the use of saline injections to counteract shock during surgery. He proposed the use of gum-saline injections for wound shock to saved many lives of wounded soldiers in WW I. Pic.


||Robert Williams Wood (b. 1868) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography.  
||1867: Giuseppe Morello born ... mobster.


||Mauro Picone (b. 2 May 1885) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic.
||1868: Robert Williams Wood born ... physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography.  


||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965)
||1885: Mauro Picone born ... mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic.


||Frank Byron Rowlett (b. May 2, 1908) was an American cryptologist.
||1890: E. E. Smith born ... engineer and author.


||1915 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
||1908: Frank Byron Rowlett born ... cryptologist.


||1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
||1915: Clara Immerwahr dies ... chemist.


||1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
||1964: Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.


||Salomon Bochner (d. 2 May 1982) was an American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.
||1979: Giulio Natta dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||1982: Salomon Bochner dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.


File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
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File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] says he is "sick and tired of mopping up [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl]], among other things."
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] says he is "sick and tired of mopping up [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl]], among other things."


||Sir John Carew Eccles (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
||1997: John Carew Eccles dies ... neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.


File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.


||2008 – Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938)
||2008: Izold Pustõlnik dies ... astronomer and academic.
 
||2012 – Akira Tonomura, Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942). No pic.


|File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] discovers cache of previously unknown [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|da Vinci]] manuscripts.
||2012: Akira Tonomura dies ... physicist, author, and academic. No pic.


File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]].
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


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  • 1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.

    1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.

  • 1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

    1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

  • 1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.

    1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.

  • 1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

    1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

  • 1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."

    1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."

  • 2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

    2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

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