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||303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
File:Jacques de Vaucanson.jpg|link=Jacques de Vaucanson|1709: Inventor and artist [[Jacques de Vaucanson (nonficction)|Jacques de Vaucanson]] born. Vaucanson created impressive and innovative automata; was the first man to design an automatic loom;  and built the first all-metal lathe.


||1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
File:An Election Entertainment - William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1755: Artist and social critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]]’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752.
 
||1588 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (b. 1515)
 
||1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782)
 
||1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (d. 1796)
 
||Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS (b. 24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
 
||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (d. 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.
 
||1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
 
||1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.


File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
||1812 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
||1815 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
||1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
||1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
||1856 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)


File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.


||1854 – A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".
 
||1898 – Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (d. 1983)
 
||1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
 
||1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
 
||1933 – Judah Folkman, American physician and biologist (d. 2008)
 
||1939 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
 
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] uses the Banach–Steinhaus theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
 
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' occurred near the Bahamas.
 
||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies.
 
||1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
 
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies.
 
|File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|2001: [[Brion Gysin]] delivers eulogy for [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]].
 
||2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.


File:Flying Diner.jpg|link=Flying Diner|1963: The [[Flying Diner]] announces twice-daily flights between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] .
File:America's Got Talents.jpg|link=America's Got Talents|2006: Premiere of '''''[[America's Got Talents]]''''', a televised American weights and measures competition.


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  • 1709: Inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson born. Vaucanson created impressive and innovative automata; was the first man to design an automatic loom; and built the first all-metal lathe.

    1709: Inventor and artist Jacques de Vaucanson born. Vaucanson created impressive and innovative automata; was the first man to design an automatic loom; and built the first all-metal lathe.

  • 1755: Artist and social critic William Hogarth’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752.

    1755: Artist and social critic William Hogarth’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752.

  • 1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

    1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.

  • 1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

    1842: Osman Hamdi Bey dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.

  • 2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".

    2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon dies. He is known as "the father of information theory".

  • 2006: Premiere of America's Got Talents, a televised American weights and measures competition.

    2006: Premiere of America's Got Talents, a televised American weights and measures competition.

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