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File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of gambling.
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of gambling.
||1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828)
||1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.


File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.
File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1928: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] born. He will be a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement.


File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1929: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an invitation to meet [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]]."
File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1929: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an invitation to meet [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]]."
||1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
||1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
||1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
||1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
||2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars
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  • 1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1753: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of gambling.

    1753: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of gambling.

  • 1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

    1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.

  • 1929: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an invitation to meet Andy Warhol."

    1929: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an invitation to meet Andy Warhol."

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