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||1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
||1625 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)
||1756 – James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
||1814 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (d. 1874)
||1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist (d. 1903)
||1826 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
||1831 – Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
||1872 – Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
||1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television (d. 1946)
||1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.


File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician, economist, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which predict and prevent economic [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician, economist, and crime-fighter [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which predict and prevent economic [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  
||1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
||1914 – Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
||1917 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
||1918 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
||1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
||1998 – Edward Ginzton, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
||2008 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1904)


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon [[On Halting Problems|discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts emergence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon [[On Halting Problems|discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts emergence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


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