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File:Achilles-wearing-petasos_Louvre_G264_n3.jpg|link=Petasos (nonfiction)|1200 BC: Achilles wears [[Petasos (nonfiction)|Petasos]], starting a a fashion craze in the ancient world.
 
File:Aristotle.jpg|link=Aristotle (nonfiction)|320 BC: [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]] discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703)
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1525: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]].
 
||1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1793)
 
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.  
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.  
File:Max_Beckmann's_'Self-portrait_with_Horn',_1938-1940.jpg|link=Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|1939: [[Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|Max Beckman]] acquires new horn.
 
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1990: [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour.
||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
File:Raw sausages.jpg|link=Braunschweiger of the Vanities|1991: [[Braunschweiger of the Vanities]] makes New York Times Bestsellers list.
 
File:Rose water manufacturing Kashan.jpg|link=Rose water (nonfiction)|1994: [[Rose water (nonfiction)|Rose water]] smells better than ever.  
||1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
File:Doctor Doom first appearance.jpg|link=Supervillain|1995: [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|Doctor Doom]] demands royalty payment for appearance on comic book cover.
 
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1997: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
||1914 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (d. 1997)
 
||1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.[1]
 
||1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
 
||1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
 
||1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
 
||1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position.
 
||1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
 
|File:Achilles-wearing-petasos_Louvre_G264_n3.jpg|link=Petasos (nonfiction)|1200 BC: Achilles wears [[Petasos (nonfiction)|Petasos]], starting a a fashion craze in the ancient world.
|File:Aristotle.jpg|link=Aristotle (nonfiction)|320 BC: [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]] discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1525: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristole]].
|File:Max_Beckmann's_'Self-portrait_with_Horn',_1938-1940.jpg|link=Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|1939: [[Max Beckmann (nonfiction)|Max Beckman]] acquires new horn.
|File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1990: [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour.
|File:Raw sausages.jpg|link=Braunschweiger of the Vanities|1991: [[Braunschweiger of the Vanities]] makes New York Times Bestsellers list.
|File:Rose water manufacturing Kashan.jpg|link=Rose water (nonfiction)|1994: [[Rose water (nonfiction)|Rose water]] smells better than ever.  
|File:Doctor Doom first appearance.jpg|link=Supervillain|1995: [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|Doctor Doom]] demands royalty payment for appearance on comic book cover.
|File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1997: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
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  • 1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

    1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.

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