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||1557 – Olaus Magnus, Swedish archbishop, historian, and cartographer (b. 1490)
||1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
||1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
File:Maria Mitchell.jpg|link=Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer and academic [[Maria Mitchell (nonfiction)|Maria Mitchell]] born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
||1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1940)
||1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
||1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979)
||1922 – Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1923: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1923: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
||1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
||1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
||1967 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1977: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1977: [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
||1996 – Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
||2004 – Philip Abelson, American physicist and author (b. 1913)
||2015 – Bernard d'Espagnat, French physicist, philosopher, and author (b. 1921)
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  • 1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

    1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

  • 1923: Hilbert curve discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1923: Hilbert curve discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

    1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

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