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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.


||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.
 


||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 Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
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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