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||1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1768) | |||
||1703 – John Wallis, English mathematician and cryptographer (b. 1616) | |||
||1704 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (b. 1632) | |||
||1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer (d. 1793) | |||
||1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) | ||1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) | ||
||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE ( | ||1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849) | ||
||1841 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1792) | |||
||1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888) | |||
||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) | |||
||1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995) | |||
||1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) | |||
||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) | |||
||1918 – Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845) | |||
||1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | |||
||1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. | |||
||1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. | |||
||1971 – Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. | |||
||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (born 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. | |||
||2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | |||
||2005 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943) | |||
||2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program. | |||
||2014 – An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | |||
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]]. | |File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] patrols shipping lanes, vows to strafe [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]]. | ||
