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||1453 – Johannes Engel, German doctor, astronomer and astrologer (d. 1512)


||1729 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662)
File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.


||Pietro Paoli (b. March 2, 1759) was an Italian mathematician.
File:Francesco_Bianchini.png|link=Francesco Bianchini (nonfiction)|1729: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini dies. Bianchini was secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.


File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore telegraph machine]] in Paris.
File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore telegraph machine]] in Paris.


||1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
File:I_Got_Spaces.jpg|link=I Got Spaces|1931: Premiere of '''[[I Got Spaces]]''' by George Gershwin. "I got spaces / I got vectors / I got metrics / Who could ask for anything more?"
 
||1830 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (b. 1755)
 
||1840 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
 
||1880 – John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790)
 
||1886 – Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher (d. 1942)
 
||1901 – Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1984)
 
||1902 – Edward Condon, American physicist and academic (d. 1974)
 
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1922 – Frances Spence, American computer programmer (d. 2012)
 
||1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
 
||1962 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)


File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1972: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1972: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.


||1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1997: Mathematician [[J. Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]] dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
 
||1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
 
File:Niles Cartouchian interrogates Fugitive Rubies.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|2017: Famed gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] captures supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]].
 
||2017 – The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson were officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia


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