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File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1858: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] born. He will do pioneering work in mathematical logic and [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]].
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1859: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
 
||1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
 
||1859 – Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
 
||1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
 
||1896 – Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (d. 1993)
 
||1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
 
||1926 – George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (d. 2008)
 
||1926 – Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
 
||1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
 
||1956 – The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
 
||1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
 
||2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.
 
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