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File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born.
File:Albrecht Dürer self-portrait.jpg|link=Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|1471: Painter, engraver, and mathematician [[Albrecht Dürer (nonfiction)|Albrecht Dürer]] born.


1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
|link=1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.


1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
|link=1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.


File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
|link=File:Louis Slotin.jpg|link=Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|1946: Physicist [[Louis Slotin (nonfiction)|Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


|link=|1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
|link=|1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.


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