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||1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
||1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)
||1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
||1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
||1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
||1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
||1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
||1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
||1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
||1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
||1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
||1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
||1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
||1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
||1940 – Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011)
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
File:Aleister Crowley.jpg|link=Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|1947: Magician and author [[Aleister Crowley (nonfiction)|Aleister Crowley]] dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.


File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] uses the [[Gnomon algorithm]] to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.  
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1948: [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] uses the [[Gnomon algorithm]] to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.  
||1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
||1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1970: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]].
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1970: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]].
||1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
||2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
||2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
||2015 – Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (b. 1925) Robotics
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  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss uses the Gnomon algorithm to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

    1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss uses the Gnomon algorithm to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

  • 1970: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate Brownian ratchet.

    1970: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate Brownian ratchet.

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