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File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
||1860: Niels Ryberg Finsen born ... physician and scientist ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science." Pic.


||1861: Charles Duryea born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Pic (in vehicle).
||1861: Charles Duryea born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. Pic (in vehicle).

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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • 1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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