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File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1598: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:James Ferguson.jpg|link=James Ferguson (nonfiction)|1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author [[James Ferguson (nonfiction)|James Ferguson]] born.  
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
 
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
 
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1959: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
 
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Woodward and Burroughs announce Initial Public Offering of [[Extract of Radium]], expect to raise "several billion dollars worth of computational power."
 
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
 
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
 
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  • 1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

    1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

  • 1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

    1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

  • 1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

    1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

  • 1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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