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||120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175)
||412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)
||1575 – Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
||1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640)
||1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1782)
||1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) Mimicry
||1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907)
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. He  will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Moses Gomberg.jpg|link=Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|1866: Chemist [[Moses Gomberg (nonfiction)|Moses Gomberg]] born. He  will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1867: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1867: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1879: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
||1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography (d. 1968)
||1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
||1914 – Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman (d. 1974)
||1915 – D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
||1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
||1928 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
||1945 -- Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
||1950 – The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  
||1957 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
||1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect and engineer, designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral (b. 1880)
||1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
||1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
||1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
||1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
||1975 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
||1979 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2012: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
File:The Eel receives news from informants.jpg|link=The Eel's henchmen|2012: The Eel receives [[The Eel's henchmen|news from informants]].
||2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)
||2017 – Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933)
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  • 1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

    1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

  • 1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.

    1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.

  • 1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

    1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

  • 2012: The Eel receives news from informants.

    2012: The Eel receives news from informants.

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