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||1533 – Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497) | |||
||1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704) | ||1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704) | ||
||1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648) | |||
||1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684) | |||
||1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830) | ||1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830) | ||
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||1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. | ||1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. | ||
||1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901) | |||
||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. | ||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base. | ||
||2012 – Shoshichi Kobayashi, Japanese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1932) | |||
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1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.