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File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1601: Mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Robert Fludd.jpg|link=Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|1601: Mathematician [[Robert Fludd (nonfiction)|Robert Fludd]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
||1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-Russian hydrographer and explorer (b. 1681)
||1852 – Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
||1875 – Mileva Maric, Serbian physicist (d. 1948)
||1875 – Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician (d. 1962)
||1900 – Margaret Brundage, American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976)
File:Rudolph Hell.gif|link=Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|1901: Inventor and engineer [[Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|Rudolf Hell]] born. He will invent the [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellschreiber]] teleprinter system.
File:Rudolph Hell.gif|link=Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|1901: Inventor and engineer [[Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|Rudolf Hell]] born. He will invent the [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellschreiber]] teleprinter system.
||1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
||1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
||1946 – Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
File:Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_culture.jpg|1964: ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' spontaneously generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1961: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to forecast [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] with 99.5% certainty.
|File:Saccharomyces_cerevisiae_culture.jpg|1964: ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae'' spontaneously generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1965: Flock of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] gathers after [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|recovery of Palomares bomb]].
 
File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2009: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] stolen masterpiece ''Lebanon'' recovered using [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]]'s quicksort routine.
|File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1961: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to forecast [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1966 Palomares B-52 crash]] with 99.5% certainty.
 
|File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1965: Flock of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] gathers after [[1966 Palomares B-52 crash (nonfiction)|recovery of Palomares bomb]].
 
||1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
 
||1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
 
||1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
 
||2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
 
||2005 – Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)
 
|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2009: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] stolen masterpiece ''Lebanon'' recovered using [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]]'s quicksort routine.
 
||2013 – Spacecraft ''Gaia'' is launched by European Space Agency.
 
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  • 1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

    1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

  • Rudolph Hell.gif

    1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.

  • 1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

    1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

  • 1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

    1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

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