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1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
1894: The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of Georg Cantor.
2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
-File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1609: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] discovers secret [[math crime]] gang in the Vatican, vows to "see them all swing from the Earthly ends of ropes, in a mortal demonstration of the immortal Pendulum."
 ||1715: Humphry Ditton dies ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online.
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 ||1928: The airship ''Graf Zeppelin'' completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
-File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1929: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] calls [[Gene Krupa (nonfiction)|Gene Krupa]] "the most brilliant young drummer of his generation."
 ||1946: Arthur James Arnot born ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for patenting the world's first electric drill. He later designed the Spencer Street Power Station, Victoria. Pic search.