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File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | File:Andy Warhol.jpg|link=Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|1987: Artist [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] dies. He was a leading figure in the [[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] movement. | ||
||1994: Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. | ||1994: Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. | ||
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1632: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei calls the House of Malevecchio "a dynasty built on crimes against physics."
1817: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1933: Engineer and inventor Justin Capră born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
1987: Artist Andy Warhol dies. He was a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1995: The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.