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||Leon Battista Alberti (d. April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving).
||1472: Leon Battista Alberti dies ... humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving).
 
|File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1598: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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File:Niles Cartouchian Renaissance juggler.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|1600: Mathematician, detective, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|Niles Cartouchian]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of committing shape theft and other [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Niles Cartouchian Renaissance juggler.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|1600: Mathematician, detective, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (Renaissance)|Niles Cartouchian]] publicly accuses the [[House of Malevecchio]] of committing shape theft and other [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and author (d. 1776)
||1710: James Ferguson born ... astronomer and author.


||1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701)
||1744: Anders Celsius dies ... astronomer, physicist, and mathematician.


File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.


||1792 – "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
||1792: "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.


||1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
||1792: Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.


File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
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File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1848: [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|Semaphore telegraph]] system becomes infected with self-perpetuating error code, probably released by the [[Forbidden Ratio]].  Self-perpetuating error codes will later be recognized as an early form of computer virus.
File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1848: [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|Semaphore telegraph]] system becomes infected with self-perpetuating error code, probably released by the [[Forbidden Ratio]].  Self-perpetuating error codes will later be recognized as an early form of computer virus.


||1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1925) Christian Felix Klein (German: [klaɪn]; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.
||1849: Felix Klein born ... mathematician and academic ... work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day.


||1854 – Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor (d. 1940)
||1854: Charles Sumner Tainter born ... engineer and inventor.


||1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
||1859: British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.


||1868 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (d. 1910)
||1868: John Moisant born ... pilot and engineer.


File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
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||1918: Gérard de Vaucouleurs born ... astronomer and academic.
||1918: Gérard de Vaucouleurs born ... astronomer and academic.


||1931: Felix Berezin born ... mathematician and physicist.
||1931: Felix Berezin born ... mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the theory of supersymmetry and supermanifolds as well as to the path integral formulation of quantum field theory. Pic: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87


||1938 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 2012)
||1938: Roger Boisjoly born ... aerodynamicist and engineer.


||1944 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880)
||1944: George Herriman dies ... cartoonist.


||1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
||1953: Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.


||1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
||1954: The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.


||1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
||1959: The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.


File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
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File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.


||1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
||1961: Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
 
|File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Woodward and Burroughs announce Initial Public Offering of [[Extract of Radium]], expect to raise "several billion dollars worth of computational power."


||1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
||1981: More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.


File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
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File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.


||1996 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (b. 1920)
||1996: Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (b. 1920)


||Lucien Marie Le Cam (d. April 25, 2000) was a mathematician and statistician. Pic.  
||2000: Lucien Marie Le Cam dies ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.  


||Athanasios Papoulis (d. April 25, 2002) was a Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician. Pic.
||2002: Athanasios Papoulis dies ... engineer and applied mathematician. Pic.


||2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)
||2014: Barbara Fiske Calhoun dies ... cartoonist and painter.


File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' stolen from Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' stolen from Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the notorious criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].


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  • 1599: Oliver Cromwell born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

    1599: Oliver Cromwell born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • 1600: Mathematician, detective, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of committing shape theft and other crimes against mathematical constants.

    1600: Mathematician, detective, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of committing shape theft and other crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1770: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

    1770: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

  • 1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1840: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

    1840: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

  • 1848: Semaphore telegraph system becomes infected with self-perpetuating error code, probably released by the Forbidden Ratio. Self-perpetuating error codes will later be recognized as an early form of computer virus.

    1848: Semaphore telegraph system becomes infected with self-perpetuating error code, probably released by the Forbidden Ratio. Self-perpetuating error codes will later be recognized as an early form of computer virus.

  • 1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1902: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

    1902: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

  • 1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

    1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

  • 1904: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Srinivasa Ramanujan uses the the Ramanujan theta function to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1904: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Srinivasa Ramanujan uses the the Ramanujan theta function to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

    1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

  • 1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

  • 1984: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine with no apparent ill effect.

    1984: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of the transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine with no apparent ill effect.

  • 1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

    1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 2 stolen from Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

    2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 2 stolen from Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia by the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

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