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File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1822: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He will build the world's first oil refinery and invent the kerosene lamp.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and astronomer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] discovers the third law of planetary motion.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1842: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] demonstrates new type of [[scrying engine]] which pre-visualizes laws of thermodynamics.
 
File:Howard Aiken.jpg|link=Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and computer scientist [[Howard H. Aiken (nonfiction)|Howard H. Aiken]] born. He will design the Harvard Mark I computer.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]], publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] uses [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] dies. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.  
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1927: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which which generate stochastic preventive algorithms in response to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
File:Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich postage stamp.jpg|link=Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (nonfiction)|Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]] born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.
 
File:One Veteran's Square - Media, Pennsylvania.jpg|link=Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI (nonfiction)|1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
 
File:Desperately Hanging Chad.jpg|link=Desperately Hanging Chad|'''''[[Desperately Hanging Chad]]2001:  Premiere of ''''', an American comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform.
 
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  • 1618: Mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

    1618: Mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

  • 1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

    1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

  • 1879: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.

    1879: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn born. He will pioneer the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.

  • 1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.

    1914: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich born. He will play a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, studying the effects of nuclear explosions.

  • 1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens.

    1971: Peace activists led break into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, stealing over 1,000 classified documents. The activists mailed these documents anonymously to several US newspapers to expose numerous illegal FBI operations infringing on the First Amendment rights of American citizens.

  • Desperately Hanging Chad2001: Premiere of , an American comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform.

    Desperately Hanging Chad2001: Premiere of , an American comedy documentary film about punched cards and electoral reform.

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