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||1561 – Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1609: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
||1812 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (d. 1880) Extreme Moustache
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.
||1822 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (b. 1738)
||1835 – The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
||1867 – Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
||1841 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
||1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
||1898 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician and academic (d. 1975)
||1900 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-Jewish physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
||1908 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
||1913 – Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1934: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1934: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
||1948 – The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
||1981 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
||1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
||1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|2012: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.
File:George Spencer-Browne.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|2016: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] dies. He wrote ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:George Spencer-Browne.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|2016: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] dies. He wrote ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars.
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  • 1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

    1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

    1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

  • 2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

    2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

  • 2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.

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