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||1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
 
||1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522)
 
||1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
 
||1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
 
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise 600x800.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|[[Carnevale Tenebre]] uses vise to clamp souls.
 
File:Thugs strangling traveller.jpg|link=Criminal (nonfiction)|[[Demon (nonfiction)|Demon]]-hunters [[Predation (nonfiction)|capture their prey]]. One hunter grips the Demon's feet, another its hands, while the third weaves a sacred ligature around the Demon's neck.
||1783 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1717)
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] less wrong than you think.
 
File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] uploads [[Turpentine delight]] into Brer Rabbit.
||1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873)
File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] upgrading to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
 
File:Phantomtollbooth.PNG|link=The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|Before his appearance in [[The Phantom Tollbooth]], Tock the Clock Dog endorsed Extract of Radium in order to qualify for [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]].  
||1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)
File:Curie and radium by Castaigne.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|M. and Mme. Curie reverse engineer [[Extract of Radium]].
 
File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|"[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.
||1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
 
||1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
 
||1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015)
 
||1925 – Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015)
 
||1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
 
||1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
 
||1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
 
||1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
 
||1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
 
||1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
 
||1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
 
||2004 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (b. 1946)
 
||2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (b. 1916)
 
File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|2017: "[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.
 
|File:Carnevale Tenebre vise 600x800.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|[[Carnevale Tenebre]] uses vise to clamp souls.
|File:Thugs strangling traveller.jpg|link=Criminal (nonfiction)|[[Demon (nonfiction)|Demon]]-hunters [[Predation (nonfiction)|capture their prey]]. One hunter grips the Demon's feet, another its hands, while the third weaves a sacred ligature around the Demon's neck.
|File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] less wrong than you think.
|File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] uploads [[Turpentine delight]] into Brer Rabbit.
|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] upgrading to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
|File:Phantomtollbooth.PNG|link=The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|Before his appearance in [[The Phantom Tollbooth]], Tock the Clock Dog endorsed Extract of Radium in order to qualify for [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]].  
|File:Curie and radium by Castaigne.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|M. and Mme. Curie reverse engineer [[Extract of Radium]].
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  • 1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

    1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

  • 2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

    2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

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