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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.
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| ||Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (b. 23 March 1722) was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769.
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| 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. | | 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. |
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| ||1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)
| | 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. |
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| ||1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
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| ||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.
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| ||Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt (d. 1816) was a pharmacist, chemist, and anatomist.
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| ||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) | |
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| ||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. | |
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| ||1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
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| 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: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. |
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| ||Kitaōji Rosanjin (北大路 魯山人, b. March 23, 1883) was the pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. | | 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. |
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| ||Hans Thirring (b. March 23, 1888) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathematician Josef Lense, he is known for the prediction of the Lense–Thirring frame dragging effect of general relativity in 1918.
| | 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. |
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| ||1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
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| ||1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
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| ||1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
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| ||1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
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| ||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
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| ||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
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| ||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.
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| ||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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| ||Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS (d. March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding.
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| ||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)
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| 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]].
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| ||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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| ||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.
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| ||1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
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| ||1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941) | |
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| ||1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
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| ||1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
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| |File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| ||2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934)
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| 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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| ||2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
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