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File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. He introduced classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.


File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1793: During the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]], the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.


||1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English biologist and academic (d. 1888) Aquaria
File:Niels_Henrik_Abel.jpg|link=Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and theorist [[Niels Henrik Abel (nonfiction)|Niels Henrik Abel]] dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.


||1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (b. 1802)
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971).


||1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (d. 1932)
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1992: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.
 
||1864 – William Bate Hardy, English biologist and academic (d. 1934)
 
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1864: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] uses laws of thermodynamics to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1869 – Celluloid is patented.
 
||1886 – Walter Dandy, American physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1946)
 
File:Pieter Rijke.jpg|link=Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Pieter Rijke (nonfiction)|Petrus Leonardus Rijke]] invents the Rijke tube (which turns [[math crimes]] into sound, by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave).
 
||1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (d. 1939)
 
||1903 – Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
 
||1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
 
||1920 – Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (d. 2009)
 
||1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Chinese-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born.
 
||1928 – James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
 
||1944 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
 
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1946: [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
 
||1963 – Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
 
||1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
 
||1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
 
||1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
 
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1992: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
 
||1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
 
File:Anita Borg.jpg|link=Anita Borg (nonfiction)|2003: Computer scientist [[Anita Borg (nonfiction)|Anita Borg]] dies.  She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
 
||2012 – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (b. 1936)
 
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."


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Latest revision as of 04:57, 6 April 2022

  • 1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.

    1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.

  • 1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

    1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.

  • 1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

    1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discovery of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

  • 1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

    1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).

  • 1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.

    1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. Asimov is one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers of his generation.

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