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||1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
||1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)


||1790 Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
File:Edmund Burke 1771.jpg|link=Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|1790: [[Edmund Burke (nonfiction)|Edmund Burke]] publishes ''Reflections on the Revolution in France'', in which he predicts that the [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]] will end in a disaster.


||1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
||1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
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||1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
||1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.


||1973 Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.


||1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
||1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

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