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||1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
||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.
File:Allumette Empyrées.jpg|link=Les Empyrées|1792: ''Allumette enflammée inverse'', symbol of [[Les Empyrées]], accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.
 
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1792: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|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)
||1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)

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  • 1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

    1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

  • 1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.

    1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

    1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

  • 1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

    1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

  • 1998: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells high school graduating class that "repairing a time machine is less difficult than you might think, if you have the tools and the knowledge how use them."

    1998: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells high school graduating class that "repairing a time machine is less difficult than you might think, if you have the tools and the knowledge how use them."

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