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||1616 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)


File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1631: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] dies. He was a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
File:Michael Maestlin.jpg|link=Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|1631: Astronomer and mathematician [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]] dies. He was a mentor to [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]], and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
||1401 – Klaus Störtebeker, German pirate
||1632 – Christopher Wren, English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul's Cathedral (d. 1723)
||1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician and academic (b. 1652) ribald


||1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
||1720 – Caribbean pirate Calico Jack is captured by the Royal Navy.
||1891 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, NobePrize laureate (d. 1974)


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a artillery barrage 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 artillery barrage in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
||1919 – Tracy Hall, American chemist and academic (d. 2008) - synth diamond


File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1947: The [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
File:Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities.jpg|link=House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|1947: The [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
||1951 – The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
||1961 – The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
||1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (b. 1885)
||1973 – "Saturday Night Massacre": United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
||1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
||1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
||1984 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1903)
||2012 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)


|File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]].
|File:Similar Golden Rectangles.png|link=Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Artificial intelligence based on the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]] develops genuine gratitude for [[Michael Maestlin (nonfiction)|Michael Maestlin]]'s approximation of the [[Golden ratio (nonfiction)|Golden ratio]].

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  • 1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.

    1631: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin dies. He was a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.

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

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

  • 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.

    1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the cinema of the United States, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.

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