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||1535 – The sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan.
File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1902: Pierre and Marie Curie refine [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium chloride]].


||1650 – William Bedloe, English spy born.
File:Karl Ferdinand Braun.jpg|link=Karl Ferdinand Braun (nonfiction)|1918: Physicist and academic [[Karl Ferdinand Braun (nonfiction)|Karl Ferdinand Braun]] dies. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio and television technology, sharing the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
 
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1653: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dissolves the Rump Parliament.
 
File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1654: Mathematician [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1826)
 
File:Johann Friedrich Pfaff.jpg|link=Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff (nonfiction)|Johann Friedrich Pfaff]] publishes new theory of differential forms which quickly finds application in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (b. 20 April 1809) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.
 
||1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
 
||1836 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist and academic (d. 1895)
 
||1851 – Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923)
 
||1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment falsifying the theory of spontaneous generation.
 
||1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
 
||1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
 
||Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (b. 20 April 1918) was a Swedish physicist.
 
||1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
 
||1927 – K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 
||1928 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)


File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] dies. He did pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].


File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1932: New class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]] exploits death of mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]].
File:Georg_Feigl.jpg|link=Georg Feigl (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician [[Georg Feigl (nonfiction)|Georg Feigl]] dies. He worked on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for ''n''-dimensional manifolds. Feigl was one of the initial authors of the ''Mathematisches Wörterbuch''.
 
||1945 – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.


File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: Failure of the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]] of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: Failure of the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]] of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.


||1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
File:Clandestiphrine proposal.jpg|link=Clandestiphrine|1962: Traces of [[Clandestiphrine]] residue are detected at the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs]], raising questions about CIA involvement with [[transdimensional drugs]].
 
||2003 – Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)


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