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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
||1838 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (d. 1916)
||1842 – Ellen Swallow Richards, American chemist, ecologist, and educator (d. 1911)
||1854 – Battle of the Eureka Stockade: More than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.


File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' attacked by in mid-ocean by supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]'' attacked by in mid-ocean by supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1873: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] exacerbated by unexplained loss of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1873: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] exacerbated by unexplained loss of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
||1879 – Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1970)
||1886 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
||1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
||1897 – William Gropper, American cartoonist and painter (d. 1977) Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''.
||1900 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
||1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: Modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]] is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
File:Neon_lighting_Ne_symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1910: Modern [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon lighting]] is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.  
||1933 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
||1938 – Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (d. 1998)
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[scrying engine]] to discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Edward Lorenz.jpg|link=Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]] uses [[scrying engine]] to discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1973 – Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1979: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' launches Kickstarter campaign to fund movie about ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
||1984 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
||1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913)
||1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
||2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
||2014 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
||2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941)
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to disappearance of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to disappearance of ''[[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]]''.
File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2019: [[Cantor Parabola]] joins [[Antikythera Team]] board of directors.
 
File:Cantor Parabola defies the National Security Agency.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: [[Cantor Parabola]] joins [[Antikythera Team]] board of directors.
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