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1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.
1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1891: Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1944: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) reveals Nazi efforts to use Gnomon algorithm functions for rocket propulsion.
1963: Plutonium used for crimes against mathematical constants, says John Brunner.

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 File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1089: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] dies.
-File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
+File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
 File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1686: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] born.  He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.