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File:Nezahualcoyotl.jpg|link=Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler [[Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|Nezahualcoyotl]] dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
File:Nezahualcoyotl.jpg|link=Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler [[Nezahualcoyotl (nonfiction)|Nezahualcoyotl]] dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
||George Heriot (b. 4 June 1563) was a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist.
||1694 – François Quesnay, French economist and physician (d. 1774)
||1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (d. 1776)
||1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (d. 1780)
||1754 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Slovak astronomer and academic (d. 1832)
File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians  fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]] for hundreds of years after.
File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians  fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]] for hundreds of years after.
File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1783: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]] give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1783: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]] give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
||1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated).
||1787 – Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (d. 1856)
||1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and author (b. 1725)
||1877 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
||1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS ''Supply'' to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
||1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
||1910 – Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (d. 1999)
||1916 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
||1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for ''Julia Ward Howe''). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work ''With Americans of Past and Present Days''. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the ''New York World''.
||1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1943: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card computation to forecast the position of [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]] a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1943: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses punched card computation to forecast the position of [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]] a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
File:German submarine U-505 shortly after capture.jpg|link=German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the [[German submarine U-505 (nonfiction)|German submarine U-505]]: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
||1973 – Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
||1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
||1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
||1996 – The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
||1997 – Vladimir Hütt, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1936)
||2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
||2015 – Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' fully funded by Kickstarter.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: Reality television show ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' fully funded by Kickstarter.
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  • 1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.

    1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.

  • 1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians fighting crimes against mathematical constants for hundreds of years after.

    1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians fighting crimes against mathematical constants for hundreds of years after.

  • 1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.

    1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.

  • 1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.

    1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.

  • 1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

    1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.

  • 2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.

    2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.

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