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File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations. | |File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations. | ||
||1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (d. 1714) occupational medicine | |||
||1652 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1597) | |||
||1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625) | |||
||1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) | |||
||1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. | |||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter. | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter. | ||
File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|Supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] generates earthquakes in the [[Waif (physics)|two to four kilo-waif]] range. | |||
File:Anna_Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|[[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]], wax anatomist and crime-fighter, runs a safe house for homeless [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | ||1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975) | ||
File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins. | |||
File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|[[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] declines to serve on [[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] board of directors. | ||1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) | ||
File:Fluorescence chemistry.jpg|link=Chromo-Pee Olympics|[[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] champion urinates five distinct [[Color (nonfiction)|colors]]. | |||
File:Allumette Empyrées.jpg|link=Les Empyrées|''[[Les Empyrées]]'' accidentally set fire to [[Lyoluminescence (nonfiction)|lyoluminescence]] laboratory. | ||1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, American scientist and engineer (d. 2004) | ||
||1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. | |||
||1929 – Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (d. 2013) | |||
||1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA. | |||
||1959 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1896) | |||
||1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | |||
||1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906) | |||
||1992 – George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (b. 1904) | |||
||2007 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1926) | |||
||2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942) | |||
||2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915) | |||
|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|Supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] generates earthquakes in the [[Waif (physics)|two to four kilo-waif]] range. | |||
|File:Anna_Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|[[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]], wax anatomist and crime-fighter, runs a safe house for homeless [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | |||
|File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins. | |||
|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|[[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] declines to serve on [[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] board of directors. | |||
|File:Fluorescence chemistry.jpg|link=Chromo-Pee Olympics|[[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] champion urinates five distinct [[Color (nonfiction)|colors]]. | |||
|File:Allumette Empyrées.jpg|link=Les Empyrées|''[[Les Empyrées]]'' accidentally set fire to [[Lyoluminescence (nonfiction)|lyoluminescence]] laboratory. | |||
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1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.