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File:Aristotle - Roman copy after Greek bronze by Lysippos.jpg|link=Logic (nonfiction)|"A full understanding of [[Logic (nonfiction)|logic]] may require centuries of study," warns [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
 
File:LogicGatesWorking.png|link=Logic gate (nonfiction)}|[[Logic gate (nonfiction)|Logic gate]] testifies in copmuter bug trial.
||1621 – Ralph Agas, English surveyor and cartographer (b. 1540)
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software bug]] convicted of computer crimes, sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
 
File:Rosewater cannon deployment.jpg|link=Rosewater cannon|Invention of [[Rosewater cannon|smokeless rosewater cannon]].
||1678 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist and astronomer (d. 1771)
File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|[[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] drafts love letter to [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
 
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2016: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
||1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (b. 1756)
 
||1885 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
 
||1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (b. 1901)
 
||1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
 
||1926 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (b. 1855)
 
||1832 – Rudolph Koenig, German-French physicist and academic (d. 1901)
 
||1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning (d. 1950)
 
||1894 – Norbert Wiener, American-Swedish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1964)
 
||1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
 
||1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (d. 2000)
 
||1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer and philanthropist, founded Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
 
||1933 – Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (d. 2015)
 
||1942 – Casablanca, the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City
 
||1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, on board.
 
||1977 – An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
 
||1983 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
 
||1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
 
||1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
 
||1991 – Ed Heinemann, American engineer (b. 1908)
 
||1996 – Paul Rand, American art director and graphic designer (b. 1914)
 
||2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
 
||2012 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
 
||2015 – Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1950)
 
|File:Aristotle - Roman copy after Greek bronze by Lysippos.jpg|link=Logic (nonfiction)|"A full understanding of [[Logic (nonfiction)|logic]] may require centuries of study," warns [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
|File:LogicGatesWorking.png|link=Logic gate (nonfiction)}|[[Logic gate (nonfiction)|Logic gate]] testifies in copmuter bug trial.
|File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|[[Software defect (nonfiction)|Software bug]] convicted of computer crimes, sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
|File:Rosewater cannon deployment.jpg|link=Rosewater cannon|Invention of [[Rosewater cannon|smokeless rosewater cannon]].
|File:Ayn Rand signature 1949.svg|link=Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|[[Ayn Rand (nonfiction)|Ayn Rand]] drafts love letter to [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]].
|File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2016: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
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