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||1492 The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
||1492: The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.


File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
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File:Mario Bettinus.jpg|link=Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|1657: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|Mario Bettinus]] dies.  He wrote ''Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae'', an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
File:Mario Bettinus.jpg|link=Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|1657: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Mario Bettinus (nonfiction)|Mario Bettinus]] dies.  He wrote ''Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae'', an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.


||1837 In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
||1799: Karl Heinrich Gräffe born ... mathematician. He is known for having been the first to enunciate a method to approximate the roots of any polynomial, a method known today as the Dandelin-Gräffe method. No pics online.
 
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
 
||1837: In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.


File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born.  She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born.  She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.


File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' sets sail from New Your. The ship will later be found abandoned for nine days but only slightly damaged.
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The American ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' sets sail from New Your. The ship will later be found nine days later, mysteriously abandoned and only slightly damaged.


File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.


||1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1968)
||1878: Lise Meitner born ... physicist and academic.
 
||1879: Leon Trotsky born ... theorist and politician, founded the Red Army.
 
||1886: Aron Nimzowitsch born ... chess player and theoretician.
 
||1888: C. V. Raman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1891: Genrikh Yagoda born ... director of the NKVD.
 
||1898: Raphaël Salem born ... mathematician and academic.
 
||1899: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim ... born ... theoretical physicist. Pic.
 
||1906: Jean Leray born ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
 
||1910: The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
 
||1911: Mikhail Yangel born ... missile designer in the Soviet Union. Pic.
 
||1913: Alfred Russel Wallace dies ... geographer, biologist, and explorer. Pic
 
||1915: Philip Morrison born ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic.
 
||1920: Félix Pisani dies ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic.
 
||1929: Richard F. Arenstorf born ... mathematician who discovered a stable orbit between the Earth and the Moon, called an Arenstorf Orbit, which was the basis of the orbit used by the Apollo Program for going to the Moon. Pic.
 
||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
 
||1944: Max Bergmann dies ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=max+bergmann+biochemist


||1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Pic.


||1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician (d. 1935)
||1944: Carl Wilhelm Oseen dies ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic.


||1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.


||1891 – Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD (d. 1938)
||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046


||1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
||1968: Alexander Gelfond dies ... mathematician and cryptographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+gelfond


||1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States.


||1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
||File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.


||Max Bergmann (b. 7 November 1944) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
||1983: United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.


||1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
||1986: Henry Gilman born ... organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within which his most notable work was done. He discovered the Gilman reagent, which bears his name. Pic.


||1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
||1988: Bill Hoest dies ... cartoonist. Pic.


||1972 – Richard Nixon is reelected President of the United States.
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]]. Mars Global Surveyor will examine the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. It will also provide support for sister orbiters and Mars landers and rovers.


||1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
||1998: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott dies ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.


||1983 – United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
||2000: Engineer Hans-Georg Münzberg dies ... specialized in airplane turbines and space flight. He taught at the TU Berlin, the TH Munich, and wrote textbooks. Pic search.


||1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.


||2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
||2000: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.


||2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates the twenty-first anniversary of the launch of [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]].


|File:Bacon's_Drama_Dial.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|1709: [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition]] receives funding soon, according to recent [[cryptographic numen]].
|File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1872: [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides emergency medical services after [[Pi disaster]].
|File:Hazmatterhorn.jpg|link=Hazmatterhorn|2014: [[Hazmatterhorn]] feeling restless inside bottle, warn experts.
|File:Red Eyes.jpg|link=Red Eyes|2016: [[Red Eyes]] announces intent to acquire [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon''.
|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to [[Manhattan Project|abstract expressionist weapons]].
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