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||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. No DOB. Pic.
||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. No DOB. Pic.
File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1776: Benjamin Huntsman dies ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search.
||1776: Benjamin Huntsman dies ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search.
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||1875: Reginald Punnett born ... geneticist, statistician, and academic. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic.
||1875: Reginald Punnett born ... geneticist, statistician, and academic. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic.
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."


File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1877: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1877: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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||1944: The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
||1944: The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
File:Officials of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.jpg|link=Operation Paperclip (nonfiction)|1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under [[Operation Paperclip (nonfiction)|Operation Paperclip]].


||1947: Gangster Bugsy Siegel dies. Pic.
||1947: Gangster Bugsy Siegel dies. Pic.
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||2010: Floris Takens dies ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic.
||2010: Floris Takens dies ... mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic.
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2010: A self-sustaining colony of [[transdimensional corporations]] is accidentally released from an unlicensed [[Extract of Radium]] factory. [[APTO]] investigators will later determine that the factory was manufacturing illegal [[transdimensional drugs]], including [[clandestiphrine]].


||2011: Professor He Zehui dies ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.
||2011: Professor He Zehui dies ... nuclear physicist who worked to develop and exploit nuclear physics in Germany and China. Pic.


File:Ursa Nano.jpg|link=Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|2017: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|Ursa Nano]]'' reveals "as least two, possibly as many as seven" previously unknown shades of blue.  
File:Self portrait (20 June 2024) 20240620_202729.jpg|link=Self portrait (20 June 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (20 June 2024)|Self portrait]]'''.


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