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||1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (d. 1628)
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1597: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] born. He will publish a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.


File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1611: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] born.  He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1611: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] born.  He will expand the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
||1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
||1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)
||1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
||1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
||1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1871: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]], uses it to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1871: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]], uses it to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
||1881 – The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down due to a fire.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1893: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1893: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
||1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
||1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
||1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian rocket engineer and academic (d. 2011)
||1917 – The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
||1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
||1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
||1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
||1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
||1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
||1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (d. 1973)
||1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
||1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
||1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
||1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
||1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' released. It will go on to become one of the most successful albums ever.
1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
||1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
||1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b. 1909)
||2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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