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||1626 – Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1580) | |||
||1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki> | |||
||1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist (d. 1904) | |||
||1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch". | |||
||Arthur Scherbius (b. 30 October 1878) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine. | ||Arthur Scherbius (b. 30 October 1878) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine. | ||
||1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) | |||
||1895 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) | |||
||1909 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966) | |||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | ||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] creates Britain's first television transmitter. | |||
||1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) | |||
||1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States. | |||
||1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code. | |||
||1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat. | |||
||1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; equivalent to 57 megatons of TNT, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. | |||
||1975 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) | |||
||1979 – Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the "bouncing bomb" (b. 1887) | |||
||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. | |||
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | ||
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1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.