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|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1563: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] spontaneously generates new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1705 – Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (b. 1663)
 
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
||1758 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (d. 1840)
||1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand.


||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
||1811 – Inventor John Stevens' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
||1852 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
||1884 – Friedrich Bergius, German-Argentinian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)


File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
||1910 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
||1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


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||1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
||1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
||1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
||2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: [[Rhizolith Group]] draws record crowds at [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood]] Arts Festival.
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: [[Rhizolith Group]] draws record crowds at [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood]] Arts Festival.
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  • 1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.

    1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.

  • 1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

    1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

    1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.

  • 1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.

    1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.

  • 2009: Rhizolith Group draws record crowds at Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood Arts Festival.

    2009: Rhizolith Group draws record crowds at Egg Tooth Neighborhood neighborhood Arts Festival.

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