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||1784 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer and cartographer (b. 1714)
||1797 – Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
||1826 – Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (d. 1905)
||1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)
||1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (d. 1912)


||1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)
||1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)
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File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1883: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1883: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1886 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.


File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1888: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
||1891 – Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician (d. 1942)


||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)
||1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003)
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||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
||1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.
||1913 – Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (d. 1976)
||1913 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
||1927 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2011)
||1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer.


||1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
||1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.
||1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
||1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.


||1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
||1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon.
||1996 – Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (b. 1917)
||1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.


File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2017: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' sells for ten million dollars.
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|2017: Signed first edition of ''The Safe-Cracker'' sells for ten million dollars.

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  • 1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

    1882: Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.

  • 1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1883: Physicist and crime-fighter Gustav Kirchhoff uses the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

    1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker sells for ten million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker sells for ten million dollars.

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