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||699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
||1274 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (b. 1201)
||1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
||1694 – Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".


File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
||1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740)
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]].  
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]].  


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File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1842: [[Clock Head]] advises [[Judge Havelock]] to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often.
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1842: [[Clock Head]] advises [[Judge Havelock]] to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often.
||1878 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (d. 1957)
||1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)


||1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
||1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
||1904 – Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
||1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
||1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009)
||1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010)
||1915 – Paul Castellano, American gangster (d. 1985)
||1921 – Violette Szabo, French secret agent (d. 1945)


||Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō (d. June 26, 1931) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War.
||Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō (d. June 26, 1931) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War.
||1932 – Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
||1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
||1937 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1943 – Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
||1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
||1946 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (d. 2013)
||1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
||1955 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (b. 1895)


|File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]].
|File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]].
||1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
||1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
||2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
||2006 – Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (b. 1953)
||2010 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1912)


|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] invites [[Egg Tooth (monster)|Egg Tooth]] to speak at conference on [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] invites [[Egg Tooth (monster)|Egg Tooth]] to speak at conference on [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Messier 1730 born




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