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||585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
||585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.


||1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1754)
||1676: Jacopo Riccati born ... mathematician and academic.


File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
File:John Cleves Symmes, Jr. 1820.png|link=John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|1829:  Army officer, trader, and lecturer [[John Cleves Symmes, Jr. (nonfiction)|John Cleves Symmes, Jr.]] dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.


||1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and engineer [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to disprove Hollow Earth Theory.


||1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic (d. 1918)
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic.


||1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
||1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (b. 1758)
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||Hans Julius Zassenhaus (b. 28 May 1912) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.
||Hans Julius Zassenhaus (b. 28 May 1912) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.


||Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle (born 28 May 1916) was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.
||1816: Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle born ... mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.


File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] submits ''On Computable Numbers'' for publication.


||1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895). Pic.
||1980: Rolf Nevanlinna dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1987 – A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.
||1987: A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988.


||1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
||1998: Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.


||2000 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
||2000: George Irving Bell dies ... physicist, biologist, and mountaineer.


||Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS (d. 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network.
||2000: Donald Watts Davies dies ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network.


||2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
||2002: The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.


||2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
||2003: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov dies ... engineer and astronaut.


||2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2003: Ilya Prigogine dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Daihachiro Sato (d. May 28, 2008) was a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.
||2008: Daihachiro Sato dies ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic.


File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|2015: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] dies.
File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
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