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File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
||Ivar Otto Bendixson (b. August 1, 1861) was a Swedish mathematician. Pic.


File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1869: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1869: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  
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||1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
||1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)


||1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
||1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

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  • 1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

    1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

  • 1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

    1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

  • 1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

    1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

  • 1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

    1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

  • 1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

    1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

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