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| ||1490: Albert, Duke of Prussia, last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights born.
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| ||1551: Martin Delrio born ... occultist and theologian.
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| ||1682: Bartholomew Roberts born ... pirate.
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| File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. | | File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687. |
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| ||1801: William Heberden dies ... physician and scholar.
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| ||1818: Ezra Otis Kendall born ... professor, astronomer and mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1834: Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes dies ... physicist, meteorologist, and astronomer. No pic online.
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| ||1836: Norman Lockyer born ... scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. Pic.
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| ||1836: Wilhelm Steinitz born ... chess player.
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| File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1854: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent outbreak of [[Kingpin inclination]].
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| ||1860: Charlotte Cynthia Barnum born ... mathematician and social activist, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics from Yale University. No pic.
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| ||1865: The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
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| ||1867: Gerrit Mannoury born ... philosopher and mathematician, professor at the University of Amsterdam and communist, known as the central figure in the signific circle, a Dutch counterpart of the Vienna circle.
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| ||1872: Ludwik Silberstein born ... physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924.
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| ||1881: Ebenezer Cunningham born ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
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| ||1893: Frederick McKinley Jones born ... inventor and entrepreneur.
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| ||1897: Odd Hassel born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. | | File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. |
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| ||1909: Julius Sumner Miller born ... physicist and academic.
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| ||1912: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner born ... inventor.
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| ||1916: Boris Borisovich Golitsyn dies ... physicist and seismologist.
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| ||1919: Gustav Naan born ... physicist and philosopher.
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| ||1923: Dr John Paul Wild born ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic.
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| ||1926: Franz Sondheimer born ... chemist and academic.
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| ||1928: Eric Charles Milner born ... mathematician who worked mainly in combinatorial set theory. He is also known for the Milner–Rado paradox. No pic online.
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| ||1930: Max Valier dies ... rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
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| ||1942: Stephen James Rallis born ... mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands L-functions. Pic.
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| ||1964: Nandor Fodor dies ... psychologist and parapsychologist.
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| ||1969: Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
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| File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. | | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. |
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| ||1974: Police in Los Angeles raid the Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall.
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| ||1983: The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
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| ||1984: Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.
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| ||1987: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
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| ||1990: The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
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| ||1995: Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
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| ||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
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| ||2014: Gerald Edelman dies ... biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2016: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu dies ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic.
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| File:Triumph.jpg|link=Triumph (nonfiction)|2019: ''[[Triumph (nonfiction)|Triumph]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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| |File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2017: Math criminal [[Anarchimedes]] plans to steal, restore, and [[Weaponization (nonfiction)|weaponize]] the [[Antikythera mechanism]], warn crime analysts.
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