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|File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
|File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
||1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (d. 1836)
File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1792: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.


File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".


File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1854: Signed first edition of ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' sells fifty thousand dollars.
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1854: Signed first edition of ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' sells fifty thousand dollars.
||1860 – Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
||1866 – Charles Nicolle, French-Tunisian microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
||1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (b. 1798)
||1884 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1944)
||1903 – Preston Tucker, American engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan (d. 1956)
||1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
||1917 – Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
||1918 – John Gofman, American physicist, chemist, and biologist (d. 2007)
||1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
||1926 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
||1942 – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
||Edward Arthur Milne FRS (d. 21 September 1950) was a British astrophysicist and mathematician.
||1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
||1976 – Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
||2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (b. 1932)
||2003 – The Galileo Probe is terminated by sending it into Jupiter.
||2014 – Michael Harari, Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1927)


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  • 1576: Gerolamo Cardano dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.

    1576: Gerolamo Cardano dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.

  • 1577: Mathematician, cosmographer, and crime-fighter Pedro Nunes publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on navigation and cartography to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants at sea.

    1577: Mathematician, cosmographer, and crime-fighter Pedro Nunes publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on navigation and cartography to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants at sea.

  • 1792: French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.

    1792: French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.

  • 1853: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

    1853: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".

  • 1854: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells fifty thousand dollars.

    1854: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells fifty thousand dollars.

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