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||362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
 
||1511 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
 
||1659 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734)
 
||1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
 
||1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
 
||1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
 
||1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
 
||1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908)
 
||1882 – Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d. 1953)
 
||1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)
 
||1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
 
||1893 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)
 
||1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (d. 1988)
 
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
File:Green_Spacecraft_img092_800x600.jpg|link=Green Spacecraft (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spacecraft]]'' sighted.
 
File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s research into electrolysis influenced a generation of [[musical electroplating ensembles]], including [[Chrome Plover]].
||1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|[[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates micro-epiphanies.
 
File:Bacon's_Drama_Dial.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|Bacon's Drama Dial is key to [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition]], according to new cryptographic analysis.
||1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
File:Draw Doug genetic algorithm.jpg|link=Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|"How to Draw Doug" cartoon by Ruben Bolling explains [[Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|genetic algorithms]].
 
File:Jason Nelson.jpg|link=Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|[[Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|Jason Nelson]] does not know [[This is how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die]], so please stop asking.
||1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|"[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
 
||1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
 
||1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
 
||1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
 
||2002 – Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)
 
||2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
 
||2015 – Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (b. 1926) DC Comics
 
|File:Green_Spacecraft_img092_800x600.jpg|link=Green Spacecraft (nonfiction)|''[[Green Spacecraft]]'' sighted.
|File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s research into electrolysis influenced a generation of [[musical electroplating ensembles]], including [[Chrome Plover]].
|File:Cryptographic numen modelled as nano-wire.jpg|link=Cryptographic numen|[[Cryptographic numen]] modeled in nanowire, generates micro-epiphanies.
|File:Bacon's_Drama_Dial.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|Bacon's Drama Dial is key to [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition]], according to new cryptographic analysis.
|File:Draw Doug genetic algorithm.jpg|link=Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|"How to Draw Doug" cartoon by Ruben Bolling explains [[Genetic algorithm (nonfiction)|genetic algorithms]].
|File:Jason Nelson.jpg|link=Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|[[Jason Nelson (nonfiction)|Jason Nelson]] does not know [[This is how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die (nonfiction)|how you will die]], so please stop asking.
|File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|"[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
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  • 1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

    1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

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