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||217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
||109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
||1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
||1616 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt (d. 1680)
||1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580)
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place.
||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834)
||1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
||1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864)
||1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
||1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902)
||1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
||1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)


File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1860: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]].
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File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.


File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1885: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
||1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
 
||1885 – Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist (d. 1975)
 
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
 
||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
 
||1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
 
||1909 – William Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1991)
 
||1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist and academic (d. 2011)
 
||1914 – Pearl Witherington, French secret agent (d. 2008)
 
||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001)
 
||1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
 
||1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996)
 
||1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
 
||1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
 
||1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)
 
||1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
 
||1938 – Pieces of a meteorite, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
 
||1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1986)
 
||1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
 
||1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
 
||1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
 
||Peter Thullen (d. 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.
 
||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
 
||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
 
||2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)


||Peter Thullen (d. 24 June 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.
||2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933)


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