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File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|1923: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
||1499 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (b. 1433)
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1954: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used in [[scrying engine]] for the first time.
 
File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] steal [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]], challenges [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] to do his worst.
||1671 – Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1742)
 
||1768 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1687)
 
||1838 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (b. 1768)
 
||1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
 
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]].
 
||1894 – Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician and academic (d. 1961)
 
||1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1979)
 
||1910 – José Enrique Moyal, Australian physicist and engineer (d. 1998)
 
||1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
 
||1912 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (d. 2014)
 
||1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
 
||1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
 
||1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
 
||1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London
 
||1994 – Paul Lorenzen, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1915)
 
||2013 – Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Norwegian physician, academic, and politician (b. 1939)
 
|File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|1923: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
|File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1954: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used in [[scrying engine]] for the first time.
 
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