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||1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1822: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1822: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
||1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
||1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)


File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
||1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)


File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
||1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)
||1918 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|1919: New type of [[Scrying engine|scrying engine]] used to predict [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|1919: New type of [[Scrying engine|scrying engine]] used to predict [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1920: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1920: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
||1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
||1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of ''[[Field Report Number One (V-2)|Field Report Number One]]''.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of ''[[Field Report Number One (V-2)|Field Report Number One]]''.
||1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]], the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]], the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|1959: "An [[Evil bit release|Evil bit was released]] in 1923," according to [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]].
 
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.
|File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|1959: "An [[Evil bit release|Evil bit was released]] in 1923," according to [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]].
 
|File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.
 
||2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
 
||2015 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
 
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