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1873: The Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the life of Mark Twain.
1873: Mark Twain writes mixed review of new work by the Rhizolith Group.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

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+||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
+||1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (d. 1675)
+||1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
+||1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
+||1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
+||1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
+||1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
+||1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
 File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1873: The [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on the life of [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
 File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1873: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] writes mixed review of new work by the [[Rhizolith Group]].