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File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
 
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
||1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (d. 1701)
||1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
||1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (d. 1864)
||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956)
||||Ivan Emanuel Wallin (b. 22 January 1883) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory.[2] Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"
||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
||1901 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
||1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966)
||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981)
||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981)
||1908 – Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
||1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
||1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
||1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]].
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]].
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|1967: [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] joins [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]].
File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|1967: [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] joins [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]].
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to stop theft of the [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]].
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to stop theft of the [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]].
||1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
||1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
||1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1968: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] accepts [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]]'s application for membership.
File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1968: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] accepts [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]]'s application for membership.
||1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
||1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
||2015 – Fabrizio de Miranda, Italian engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge (b. 1926)
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