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File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]].
File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] publishes an analysis of [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project]].
||1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826)


File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born.  He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1766: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] born.  He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
||1784 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)
||1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888)
||1838 – Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
||1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
||1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
||1879 – Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
||1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
||1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
||1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
||1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
||1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
||1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
||1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and director (d. 1997)
||1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place (d. 2005)
||1918 – Julia Pirie, British spy working for MI5 (d. 2008)
||1934 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)


Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
Roswell_Daily_Record_July_9_1947.jpg|link=Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|1947: The [[Roswell UFO incident (nonfiction)|Roswell UFO incident]], the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
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File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1948: ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1948: ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.


File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
||1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
||1971 – Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)
||1979 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
||2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)
||2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
||2013 – Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)
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  • 1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

    1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.

  • 1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.

    1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.

  • 1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

    1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.

  • 1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

    1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

  • 1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.

    1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.

  • 1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

    1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

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