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||878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born. He will  introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born. He will  introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.
||1639 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568) Galileo


File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1670: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
File:Niccolò Zucchi.png|link=Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|1670: Astronomer and physicist [[Niccolò Zucchi (nonfiction)|Niccolò Zucchi]] dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.
||1786 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
||1792 – Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)
||1792 – Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki, on the island of Kyūshū, Japan's southernmost main island, erupts, creating the deadliest Megatsunami that kills 14,524 people, as also a Pyroclastic flow in 1991. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_Unzen_earthquake_and_tsunami
||1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
||1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
||1860 – Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927)
||1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
||1894 – August Kundt, German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
||1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
||1911 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)
||1919 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
||1921 – Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (d. 2010)
||1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)


File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups.  He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups.  He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
||1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".


|link=1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
|link=1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


|link=1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1932: Bad weather forces aviator [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, after flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
 
||link=1932: Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
 
 
||1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
 
||1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is 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)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
||1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
||1964 – James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
||1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (b. 1882)


|link=|1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
|link=|1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
||1981 – The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
||1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
||2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
||2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.


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  • 1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer born. He will introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.

    1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer born. He will introduction of classical motifs into Northern art through his knowledge of Italian artists and German humanists.

  • 1670: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

    1670: Astronomer and physicist Niccolò Zucchi dies. He published works on astronomy, optics, mechanics, and magnetism.

  • 1923: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups. He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

    1923: Mathematician and academic Armand Borel born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups. He will contribute to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

  • 1932: Bad weather forces aviator Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, after flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

    1932: Bad weather forces aviator Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, after flying solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1946: Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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