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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] tries [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time.
||1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]].
 
File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|1974: Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] converts human sweat into [[Extract of Radium]].
||1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)
File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|1981: Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] disguises itself as Tree of Life.
 
||1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
 
||1793 – John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
 
||1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
 
||1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
 
||1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
 
||1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
 
||1964 – China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
 
||1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
 
||1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
 
||1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
||1998 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
 
||2002 – Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
 
||2012 – The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
 
 
|File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] tries [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time.
|File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]].
|File:Orgasmatron from Sleeper.png|link=Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|1974: Tiny [[Spacecraft (nonfiction)|spacecraft]] with [[Artificial hedonism (nonfiction)|alien "Happy Ending" software]] converts human sweat into [[Extract of Radium]].
|File:Red-Limned Sea Quetzalcoatl.jpg|link=Sea Quetzalcoatl|1981: Red-limned [[Sea Quetzalcoatl]] disguises itself as Tree of Life.
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