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File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[scrying engine]] component. | File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[scrying engine]] component. | ||
||1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. | |||
||1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. | |||
||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. | |||
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. | ||
||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||
||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. | |||
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | ||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). | ||
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | |||
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. | File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years. | ||
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1571: New method for predicting lottery winners exploits faulty scrying engine component.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2002: Computer scientist Tony Hoare publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which improve transdimensional quicksort routines.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.