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File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies | ||1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. | ||
||1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. | |||
||1635 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571) | |||
||1649 – Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (b. 1574) | |||
||1732 – Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1796) | |||
||1766 – John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (d. 1844) | |||
||1803 – British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. | |||
||1838 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (d. 1906) | |||
||1885 – Engineer and artists Narcís Monturiol dies. He invented the first air-independent and combustion-engine-driven submarine. | |||
||1902 – Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (b. 1827) - explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses | |||
||1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) | |||
||1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (d. 2012) | |||
||1929 – Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (d. 1991) | |||
||1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1956 – Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (b. 1904) no pic | |||
||1962 – The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill. | |||
||1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. | |||
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2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.