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||1552 – Sebastian Münster, German cartographer and cosmographer (b. 1488)
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File:Antonio Manetti.jpg|link=Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|1497: Mathematician and architect [[Antonio Manetti (nonfiction)|Antonio Manetti]] dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's ''Inferno'', and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
 
||1552: Sebastian Münster dies ... cartographer and cosmographer. Pic.


File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] born. His book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', will be prized by gamblers.


||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (b. 26 May 1814) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.
||1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu baptized ... was an English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which have been described by Billie Melman as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Lady Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey.  Pic.
 
File:Heinrich Geissler.jpg|link=Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor [[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler]] born. He will invent the [[Geissler tube (nonfiction)|Geissler tube]], made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
 
||1838: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue born ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.
 
||1865: Heinrich Biltz born ... chemist and academic. Pic.
 
||1874: Henri Farman born ... aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman. Pic.
 
||1885: Roland Weitzenböck born ... mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Weitzenböck connection.  Pic.


||Heinrich Biltz (b. May 26, 1865) was a German chemist and academic. Pic.
||1888: Ascanio Sobrero dies ... chemist. Ne discovered, in 1847, nitroglycerine. He initially called it "pyroglycerine", and warned vigorously against its use in his private letters and in a journal article, stating that it was extremely dangerous and impossible to handle. Pic.


||Henri Farman (b. 26 May 1874) was an Anglo-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
||1897: ''Dracula'', a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.


||Roland Weitzenböck (b. 26 May 1885) was an Austrian mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Weitzenböck connection. Pic.
||1899: Otto E. Neugebauer born ... mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. Pic search.


||1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.


File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|2016: New autobiography by [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] accuses [[Baron Zersetzung]] of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1901: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue dies ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.


File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] born.
||1902: Almon Brown Strowger dies ... inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Pic.


||1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French physician and neurologist (b. 1857)
||1904: Georges Gilles de la Tourette dies ... physician and neurologist. Pic.


||Frank Nelson Cole (d. May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician
||1926: Frank Nelson Cole dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1929 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (d. 2008)
||1929: Hans Freeman born ... bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer. Pic search.


File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1936: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1933: Jimmy Rodgers dies. Pic.


File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session.
File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1938: In the United States, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its first session.


||1969 – Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
||1938: Biochemist and pharmacologist John Jacob Abel dies. Abel contributed to the development of an early form of dialysis machine, and discovered how to isolate and crystallize insulin. Pic.
 
||1957: Edward Hutchinson Synge dies ... physicist who published a complete theoretical description of the near-field scanning optical microscope, an instrument used in nanotechnology, several decades before it was experimentally developed. He never completed university yet did significant original research in both microscopy and telescopy. He was the first to apply the principle of scanning in imaging, which later became important in a wide range of technologies including television, radar, and scanning electron microscopy. Pic search.
 
||1969: Allan Haines Loughead dies ... engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation. Pic search.
 
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.


||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
||1981: Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due). (Alive May 2019.) Pic.


||1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
||1997: Manfred von Ardenne dies ... research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik. For ten years after World War II, he worked in the Soviet Union on their atomic bomb project  Pic.


||1999 – Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (b. 1898)
||1998: Sergey Vsevolodovich Yablonsky dies ... mathematician, one of the founders of the Soviet school of mathematical cybernetics and discrete mathematics.  Pic.


||2004 – Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
||1999: Waldo Semon dies ... chemist and engineer ... credited with inventing methods for making polyvinyl chloride useful. Pic.


||Alan Kotok (d. May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Early hacker. Pic.
||2006: Alan Kotok dies ... computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).  Early hacker. Pic.


||2015 – Robert Kraft, American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
||2010: First flight of the Boeing X-51 Waverider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51_Waverider Pic.
 
||2015: Robert Kraft dies ... astronomer and academic. Kraft performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8. Pic.


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  • 1497: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.

    1497: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti dies. He investigated the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and wrote a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.

  • 1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.

    1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.

  • 1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

    1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

  • 1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.

    1895: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born. Lange will be remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs will influence the development of documentary photography and humanize the consequences of the Great Depression.

  • 1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

    1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

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