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|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|601: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[Gnomon algorithm]] characters.
|File:Kells genealogy of Christ.jpg|link=Uncial script (nonfiction)|601: New version of [[Uncial script (nonfiction)|Uncial script]] includes proto-[[Gnomon algorithm]] characters.
||1440 – Hartmann Schedel, German physician (d. 1514)
||1523 – Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1593)
||1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
||1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (d. 1731)
||1728 – John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (d. 1793)
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1787: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1801: inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] adapts steam engine to perform numerical computation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:James Watt.jpg|link=James Watt (nonfiction)|1801: inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter [[James Watt (nonfiction)|James Watt]] adapts steam engine to perform numerical computation using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques.
File:Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.jpg|link=Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|1805: Mathematician [[Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (nonfiction)|Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet]] born. He will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet will be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
||1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist and inventor [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]].  
||1923 – Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier
||1926 – Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (d. 2012)
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1955: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]], revealing new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
||1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
||1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1956: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] dies.  He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
||1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
||1992 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
||1997 – Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (b. 1906)
||1997 – Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] based on Leap Year algorithms.
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] based on Leap Year algorithms.
||2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
||2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
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