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File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[scrying engine]] component.
|File:English Lottery 1566 Scroll.jpg|link=Lottery (nonfiction)|1571: New method for predicting [[Lottery (nonfiction)|lottery winners]] exploits faulty [[scrying engine]] component.
 
||1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
 
||1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (d. 1802)


||1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
||1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.


||1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
||1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
||1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921)


||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
||1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
||1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)


File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1882: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
||1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974)
||1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
||1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
||1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
||1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
||1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)


||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  
||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (d. March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist.  


||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887)


File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
||1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
||1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
||1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
||1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
||1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
||1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)


|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
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File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|2002: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which improve transdimensional quicksort routines.
File:Sir Tony Hoare 2011.jpg|link=Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|2002: Computer scientist [[Tony Hoare (nonfiction)|Tony Hoare]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which improve transdimensional quicksort routines.
||2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934)


File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
||2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
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