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File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1659: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century. | File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1659: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century. | ||
|| The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. 1550 sailors lost their lives aboard the wrecked vessels, making the incident one of the worst maritime disasters in British naval history. The disaster has been attributed to the navigators' inability to accurately calculate their positions, to errors in the available charts and pilot books, to inadequate compasses, or to a combination of these factors. | |||
||1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725) | ||1792 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725) | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1904: Illustration of The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter awarded Pulitzer Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
2005: The Venus Express detects evidence of electrical artificial intelligence AESOP in orbit around the planet Venus.