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File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1523: Cryptographer and diplomat [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)]] born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him;  Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.  
File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1523: Cryptographer and diplomat [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)]] born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him;  Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.  


||1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703).
||1622: Vincenzo Viviani born ... mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.


||William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (d. 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician who introduced Brouncker's formula, and was the first President of the Royal Society. Pic.
||1684: William Brouncker dies ... mathematician who introduced Brouncker's formula, and was the first President of the Royal Society. Pic.


||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
||1722: The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.


File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1827: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1827: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
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File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.


||1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
||1900: Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.


File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1910: Havelock and [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] share Nobel Prize in Physics for [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|research into electrical field modulation and data transmission]].
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1910: Havelock and [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] share Nobel Prize in Physics for [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|research into electrical field modulation and data transmission]].


||1933 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist dies. He is known for the Mellin transform. Pic.
||1933: Hjalmar Mellin dies ... mathematician and theorist dies. He is known for the Mellin transform. Pic.


||Donald Lynden-Bell (b. 5 April 1935) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Pic.
||1935: Donald Lynden-Bell born ... theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Pic.


||Klaus Weber (b. 5 April 1936) was a German scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic.
||1936: Klaus Weber born ... scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic.


||1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
||1950: Marc Voorhoeve born ... mathematician who introduced the Voorhoeve index of a complex function in 1976. Pic: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~mvoorhoe/


||1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
||1951: Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.


||1967 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890). Pic.
||1958: Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.


||1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
||1967: Hermann Joseph Muller dies ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Ralph Austin Bard (d. April 5, 1975) was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945 urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a strategic city. He was "the only person known to have formally dissented from the use of the atomic bomb without advance warning." Pic.
||1969: Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
 
||1975: Ralph Austin Bard dies ... financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945 urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a strategic city. He was "the only person known to have formally dissented from the use of the atomic bomb without advance warning." Pic.


File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
File:Howard Hughes 1940s.jpg|link=Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist [[Howard Hughes (nonfiction)|Howard Hughes]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.


||2004 – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936). No pic.
||2004: Heiner Zieschang dies ... mathematician and academic. No pic.


||Irving John Good (d. 5 April 2009) was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester.  
||2009: Irving John Good dies ... mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester.  


||2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
||2009: North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.


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  • 1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.

    1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.

  • 1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.

    1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.

  • 1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.

    1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.

  • 1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

    1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

  • 1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.

    1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.

  • 1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

    1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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