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||1574 – Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician and author (d. 1628) no pic | |||
File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. | File:Joseph Nicollet.jpg|link=Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and explorer [[Joseph Nicollet (nonfiction)|Joseph Nicollet]] born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. | ||
||1821 – William Poole, American boxer and gangster (d. 1855) | |||
||1847 - Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press. | |||
||1851 – Friedrich Schottky, Polish-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1935) | |||
||1856 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941) | |||
||1877 – Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (d. 1954) | |||
||1889 – Agnes Meyer Driscoll, American cryptanalyst (d. 1971) | |||
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1896: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] receives shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] from the future. | File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1896: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] receives shipment of [[Time crystal (nonfiction)|time crystals]] from the future. | ||
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File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1901: [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]] is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1901: [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]] is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. | ||
||1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (d. 2015) thalidomide intervention | |||
||1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket. | |||
||1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate". | |||
||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. | |||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]. | ||
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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others." | ||
||1974 – James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) | |||
||1986 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) | |||
||2011 – David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (b. 1961) | |||
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1786: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1896: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane receives shipment of time crystals from the future.
1897: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
1900: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the Watergate scandal.
1974: Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others."