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||1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522) | |||
||1607 – Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts. | |||
||1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721) | |||
||1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, Slovak-German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) | |||
||1781 – Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (d. 1848) | |||
||1869 – During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed. | |||
||1882 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945) | |||
||1899 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961) | |||
||1903 – M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1989) | |||
||1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. | |||
||1921 – The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio. | |||
||1930 – Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) | |||
||1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage. | |||
||1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861) | |||
||1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. | |||
||1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. | |||
||1976 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) | |||
||1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal". | |||
||1986 – James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919) | |||
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939) | |||
1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925) | |||
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | ||
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- 1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
- 1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.