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File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1792: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1792: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
||1793 – The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
||1839 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1896)
||1856 – William Willett, English inventor, founded British Summer Time (d. 1915)
||1862 – Hon'inbō Shūsaku, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)


||1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
||1874 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)


File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] warns "flying man"  
||1889 – Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly (d. 1967)
  [[Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|Otto Lilienthal]] that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."
 
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] warns "flying man"  [[Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|Otto Lilienthal]] that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."


Otto_Lilienthal.jpg|link=Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|1896: Aviation pioneer [[Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|Otto Lilienthal]], known as the ''flying man'', dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
Otto_Lilienthal.jpg|link=Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|1896: Aviation pioneer [[Otto Lilienthal (nonfiction)|Otto Lilienthal]], known as the ''flying man'', dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
||1902 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)


||1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
||1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
||1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1878)
||1932 – A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
||1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (b. 1882)
||1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.
||1949 – Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (b. 1892)
||1949 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act Amendment, streamlining the defense agencies of the United States government, and replacing the Department of War with the United States Department of Defense.
||1953 – First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.
||1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.


||1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
||1961 – First use in Vietnam War of the Agent Orange by the U.S. Army.
||1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
||1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.


||1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
||1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
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File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1960: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
||2002 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
||2014 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (b. 1912)


File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two million dollars.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two million dollars.


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  • 1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

    1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

  • 1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.

    1792: Allumette enflammée inverse, symbol of Les Empyrées, accidentally sets fire to Dr. Guillotine.

  • 1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

    1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

  • 1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt warns "flying man" Otto Lilienthal that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."

    1896: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt warns "flying man" Otto Lilienthal that he is in danger, but Lilienthal insists that his career depends upon "never backing down from the sky."

  • 1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

    1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

  • 1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

    1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

  • 2017: The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two million dollars.

    2017: The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two million dollars.

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