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File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|500BC: Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]]. | |File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|500BC: Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]]. | ||
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] attends [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]] for the first time. | |File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] attends [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]] for the first time. | ||
||1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716) | |||
||1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686) | |||
||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754) | |||
||1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | |||
||1921 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016) | |||
||1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888) | |||
||1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) | |||
||1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877) | |||
||1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. | |||
||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. | |||
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