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File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.
File:Theoricarum by Peuerbach 1915.png|link=Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)|1423: Mathematician and astronomer [[Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction)]] born.  He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the ''Theoricae Novae Planetarum''.
||1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
||1631 – Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1768 – Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
||1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
||1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
||1869 – Grace Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1951)
||1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
||1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
||1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
||1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1924 – Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
||1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
||1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
||1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] dies. He was 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]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
||1961 – The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  


File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] launched towards Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] launched towards Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
||1975 – European Space Agency is established.
||1985 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1989: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1989: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
||Antoni Zygmund (d. May 30, 1992) was a Polish mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis.
||1998 – Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
||2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
||2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
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