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||1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (d. 1686)
||1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
||1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
||1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)
||1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
||1841 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1901)
||1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
File:Mary Celeste map.jpg|link=Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|1872: The ship [[Mary Celeste (nonfiction)|Mary Celeste]] attacked by [[Neptune Slaughter]] in mid-ocean.
||1885 – Olive Dennis, American engineer (d. 1957)
||1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953)
||1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (d. 1965)
||1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1908: Mathematician [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] dies. He invented what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] or Voronoi tessellations.
||1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944)
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born.
File:Benoit Mandelbrot.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|1924: Mathematician [[Benoit Mandelbrot (nonfiction)|Benoit Mandelbrot]] born.
File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|1924: Captive supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] gathering strength for escape attempt, says [[Niles Cartouchian]].
File:Fugitive_Rubies_interrogation_800x600.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|1924: Captive supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] gathering strength for escape attempt, says [[Niles Cartouchian]].
||1925 – George Barris, American engineer and car designer (d. 2015)
||1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
||1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
||1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
||1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
||1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
File:Lake Peigneur waterfall.png|link=Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|1980: [[Lake Peigneur (nonfiction)|Lake Peigneur]] drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.   
File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1980: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] flies by Saturn, completing its primary mission.   
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1981: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] exposes new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|1981: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] exposes new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
||2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)
||2006 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950)
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