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File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[scrying engine]] component.


||1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
File:Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace by Guérin.jpg|link=Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and astronomer [[Pierre-Simon Laplace (nonfiction)|Pierre-Simon Laplace]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.


||1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.


||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
File:John_Lighton_Synge.jpg|link=John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic [[John Lighton Synge (nonfiction)|John Lighton Synge]] born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Middle-earth Farm.jpg|link=Middle-earth Farm|1945: First publication of '''''[[Middle-earth Farm]]''''', an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.


||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes.
 
||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
 
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
 
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|2001: The [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.


File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|2002: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which improve transdimensional quicksort routines.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
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  • 1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

    1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.

  • 1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

    1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. Noether will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.

  • 1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic John Lighton Synge born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.

    1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic John Lighton Synge born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.

  • 1945: First publication of Middle-earth Farm, an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.

    1945: First publication of Middle-earth Farm, an allegorial novel by George Orwell and J.R.R. Tolkien.

  • 1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.

    1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.

  • 2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

    2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.

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