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File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1957: [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use with [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]].
 
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] incorporates [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|virtual Nebra sky disk]] as backup navigation system.
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: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: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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