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||1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon born ... mystic. Pic. | ||1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon born ... mystic. Pic. | ||
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||1894: Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi died ... historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic. | ||1894: Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi died ... historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Pic. | ||
||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble. | ||1899: Alfred Mosher Butts born ... architect and game designer, created Scrabble. Pic. | ||
||1905: Bruno Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. Pic. | ||1905: Bruno Rossi born ... experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. Pic. | ||
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||1915: Max Jammer born ... physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic. | ||1915: Max Jammer born ... physicist and philosopher of physics. Pic. | ||
||1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. | ||1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. Pic. | ||
||1920: Roberto Calvi born ... banker. Pic. | ||1920: Roberto Calvi born ... banker. Pic. | ||
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File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | ||
||1941: Annie Jump Cannon dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1941: Annie Jump Cannon dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
||1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. | ||1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. | ||
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||1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. | ||1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. | ||
||1992: Feza Gürsey dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search | ||1992: Feza Gürsey dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search. | ||
||1999: Willi Stoph dies ... engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany. Pic. | ||1999: Willi Stoph dies ... engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany. Pic. | ||
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. | File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. Wheeler linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit". | ||
File:The Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2009: Art critic and alleged | File:The Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2009: Art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] uses portable wormhole generator to escape [[The Nacreum]]. | ||
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1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
1927: Aviator, test pilot, and Gnomon algorithm engineer Henrietta Bolt provides protective services for Charles Lindbergh after threats against Lindbergh's life by the House of Malevecchio.
1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. Wheeler linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.