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File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1601: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1601: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
||1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723)
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year.
 
File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] imprisons, tortures famed physicist [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]].  Church authorities say they are "powerless to intervene".
||1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
File:Galileo_E_pur_si_muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]], imprisoned on trumped-up charges, uses nail to scratch the equation ''E pur si muove'' on dungeon wall, cuts his way to freedom.
 
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=Physicist (nonfiction)|''Dark Side of the Moon'' "kept my spirits up during the ordeal", famed [[Physicist (nonfiction)|physicist]] Galileo Galilei heard to mutter while leaving the courtroom.
||1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891)
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
 
File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides emergency medical services after [[Pi disaster]].
||1830 – Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890)
File:Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test_cover.jpg|link=The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|Early techno-thriller fails [[Turing test (nonfiction)|Turing test]], author invents [[High-energy literature]] techniques to improve readability.
 
File:Electric S'mores.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|[[Electric S'mores]] open for business in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]].
||1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907)
 
||1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
 
||1871 – 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California.
 
||1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in t a barrel.
 
||1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
 
||1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968)
 
||1908 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
 
||1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
 
||1919 – Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008) helicopters
 
||1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
 
||1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
 
||1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
 
||1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
 
||1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
 
||1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
 
||1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
 
||1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
 
||1957 – The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
 
||1960 – Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)
 
||1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
 
||1963 – The fire at the spaceport Baikonur in one of the martial mines missiles R-9. Seven people were killed.
 
||1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
 
||1975 – In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality.
 
||1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind" clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
 
||1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
 
||2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
 
||2011 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)
 
||2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
 
 
|File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year.
|File:The Joker circa 1940.jpg|link=The Joker (nonfiction)|[[The Joker (nonfiction)|The Joker]] imprisons, tortures famed physicist [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]].  Church authorities say they are "powerless to intervene".
|File:Galileo_E_pur_si_muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]], imprisoned on trumped-up charges, uses nail to scratch the equation ''E pur si muove'' on dungeon wall, cuts his way to freedom.
|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=Physicist (nonfiction)|''Dark Side of the Moon'' "kept my spirits up during the ordeal", famed [[Physicist (nonfiction)|physicist]] Galileo Galilei heard to mutter while leaving the courtroom.
|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
|File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|[[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides emergency medical services after [[Pi disaster]].
|File:Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test_cover.jpg|link=The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|Early techno-thriller fails [[Turing test (nonfiction)|Turing test]], author invents [[High-energy literature]] techniques to improve readability.
|File:Electric S'mores.jpg|link=Electric S'mores|[[Electric S'mores]] open for business in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]].
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  • 1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

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