Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 28

May 28
 * 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates on which systems of chronology can be calculated.
 * 1641 - Birth of Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
 * 1676 - Birth of Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
 * 1807 - Birth of Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
 * 1836 - Birth of Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
 * 1872 - Birth of Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
 * 1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
 * 1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
 * 1942 - Birth of Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1980 - Death of Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
 * 2001 - Death of Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
 * 2003 - Death of Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian physicist and chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)