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||217 BC – The Romans, led by Gaius Flaminius, are ambushed and defeated by Hannibal at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.
||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.
||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.
||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)
||1616: Ferdinand Bol born ... painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt.


||1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (b. 1580)
||1637: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc dies ... astronomer and historian.


File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
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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.


||Olof Celsius (the elder) (d. 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic.
||1756: Olof Celsius (the elder) dies ... botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic.


||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834)
||1771: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont born ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont.


||1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general and engineer (d. 1838)
||1774: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo born ... general and engineer.


||1788 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (d. 1864)
||1788: Thomas Blanchard born ... inventor ... pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the major technological innovation known as interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. In 1825, Blanchard also invented America's first car, which he called a "horseless carriage," powered by steam. Pic.


||1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
||1793: The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.


||1835 – Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist and academic (d. 1902) Pic.
||1835: Johannes Wislicenus born ... chemist and academic. Pic.


||1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist (d. 1914)
||1842: Ambrose Bierce born ... short story writer, essayist, and journalist.


||1852 – Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist and academic (d. 1915)
||1852: Friedrich Loeffler born ... bacteriologist and academic.


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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||1914: Pearl Witherington born ... French secret agent (d. 2008)
||1914: Pearl Witherington born ... French secret agent (d. 2008)


||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001)
||1915: Fred Hoyle born ... astronomer and author.


||1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
||1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.


||1917 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (d. 1996)
||1917: Joan Clarke born ... cryptanalyst and numismatist.


||1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
||1918: First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.


||1922 – John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
||1922: John Postgate born ... microbiologist, author, and academic.


||1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 2012)
||1924: Archie Roy born ... astronomer and academic.


||Martin Lewis Perl (b. June 24, 1927) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic.
||1927: Martin Lewis Perl born ... physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Pic.


||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.
||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)
||1946: Ellison Onizuka born ... colonel, engineer, and astronaut.


||1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
||1947: Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.


||1969 – Frank King, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
||1969: Frank King dies ... cartoonist.


||1969 – Willy Ley, German-American historian and author (b. 1906)
||1969: Willy Ley dies ... historian and author.


||Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (d. 24 June 1978) was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic.
||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic.


||Peter Thullen (d. 1996 in Lonay) was a German/Ecuadorian mathematician.
||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician.


||2000 – Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
||2000: Vera Atkins dies ... intelligence officer.


||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products.  Pic.
||2005: Günter Lumer dies ... was a mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. He is the namesake of the Lumer–Phillips theorem on semigroups of operators on Banach spaces, and was the first to study semi-inner-products.  Pic.


||2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
||2008: Gerhard Ringel dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
||2012: Gu Chaohao dies ... mathematician and academic.


||2013 – James Martin, English-Bermudian computer scientist and author (b. 1933)
||2013: James Martin dies ... computer scientist and author.


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