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1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.

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 File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyám]] born.
+||1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
+||1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
+||1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian engraver and etcher (d. 1664)
 File:William Oughtred.jpg|link=William Oughtred (nonfiction)|1661: Mathematician [[William Oughtred (nonfiction)|William Oughtred]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+||1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, historian, and theologian (b. 1623)
+||1692 – Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
 File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1711: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
+||1777 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852)
+||1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
+||1808 – Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)
 File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1822: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
+||1850 – Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
 File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1871: Gem detective and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] accuses [[Niles Cartouchian]] of manufacturing illegal [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals (nonfiction)]].
 File:Bertrand Russell transparent bg.png|link=Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist [[Bertrand Russell (nonfiction)|Bertrand Russell]] born.
+||1889 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
+||1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
+||1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
+||1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
+||1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.
+||1927 – The Bath School disaster: Forty-five people, including many children, are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
+||1931 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
+||1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
+||1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
+||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
+||1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
+||1974 – Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
+||1974 – Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
+||Thomas Henry Moray (d. May 18, 1974) was an inventor from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received a US patent 2,460,707 in February 1949, after a process of 17 years in discussions with the patent office. The main components of the patent were an LC circuit resonator and a set of vacuum power tubes of diode type using uranium and radium power sources and doped germanium semiconductors on the cathodes. It was an early example of doped semiconductors and a forerunner of radioactive power supplies using radioactive isotopes in space research. Moray's device followed other work on nuclear batteries first done in 1913 by Henry Moseley using a radium source.
+||1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
+||2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
+||2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
+||2014 – Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist and academic (b. 1929)
+||2014 – Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (b. 1946)
+||2015 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (b. 1926)
+||2017 – Jacque Fresco, American engineer and academic (b. 1916)
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