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||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. | ||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. | ||
||1819 – Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895) | ||1819 – Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (d. 1895) | ||
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||1930 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1971) | ||1930 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1971) | ||
||1996 | File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] dies. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians. | ||
||2000 – The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified. | |||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|New survey names [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth neighborhood]] as "most popular neighborhood in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]]." | File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|New survey names [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth neighborhood]] as "most popular neighborhood in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]]." | ||
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1996: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős dies. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
New survey names Egg Tooth neighborhood as "most popular neighborhood in New Minneapolis."