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||1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. | ||1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. | ||
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations. | File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations; Johannes Kepler will later use these observations to detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720) | ||1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720) | ||
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1572: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses scrying engine make improved astronomical observations; Johannes Kepler will later use these observations to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
1836: Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1864: Wallace War-Heels rescues lost band of travellers, gets them safely to Kansas City, then robs them of one-third of their money and possessions.
1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He "discovered" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.