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1780: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.

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+||1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
+||1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
 File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1780: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
-File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1781: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
+||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
+||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
+||1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
+||1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
+||1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
+||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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