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File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
||1722 – Pierre Varignon, French mathematician and academic (b. 1654)
 
||1732 – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame and Spinning frame (d. 1792)
 
||1766 – Wilhelm Hisinger, Swedish physicist and chemist (d. 1852)
 
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1822: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] born.  He will design and invent [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]].
File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]].
 
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1941: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||1884 – John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.  
 
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|1999: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||1900 – Otto Soglow, American cartoonist (d. 1975)
File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2012: Festival at [[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]] celebrates history of [[scrying engines]].
 
||1912 – Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic (d. 1998)
 
||1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
 
|File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1930: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system adapted for use with [[Gnomon algorithm]].
 
||1939 – Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)
 
|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1941: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
 
||1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
 
||1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
 
||1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
 
||1972 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
 
|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.  
 
||1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
 
|File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|1999: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
 
|File:Canterbury Cathedral 1890-1900.jpg|link=Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|2012: Festival at [[Canterbury Cathedral (nonfiction)|Canterbury Cathedral]] celebrates history of [[scrying engines]].
 
||2013 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
 
||2014 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
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