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||1248 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe. | |||
File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe. | File:Baruch Spinoza.jpg|link=Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder [[Baruch Spinoza (nonfiction)|Baruch Spinoza]] born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe. | ||
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | ||
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]] | |||
||1840 – John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920) | |||
File:Origin of Species title page.jpg|link=On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|1859: Charles Darwin publishes ''[[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|On the Origin of Species]]''. | |||
||1916 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (b. 1840) | |||
||1922 – Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | |||
||1926 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. | ||1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. | ||
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||1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. | ||1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. | ||
||2012 – Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (b. 1938) | |||
||2015 – Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1941) | |||
|File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Satire (nonfiction)|[[Satire (nonfiction)|Cat uses geese]] to illustrate principles of [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|natural selection]]. | |File:Cat guarding geese c1120 BC Egypt.jpg|link=Satire (nonfiction)|[[Satire (nonfiction)|Cat uses geese]] to illustrate principles of [[On the Origin of Species (nonfiction)|natural selection]]. | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.