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||1598 | File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. | ||
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. Thornley will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | |||
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. | |||
File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | ||
File: | File:Sirhan_Sirhan.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | ||
|| | File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. | ||
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1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.