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||AD 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
||1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
||1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
||1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (d. 1753)
||1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
||1795 – Eli Whitney Blake, American engineer, invented the Mortise lock (d. 1886)
||1832 – Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and mathematician (d. 1898)
||1880 – Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
||1889 – Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959)
||1912 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (d. 2009)
||1912 – Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing (d. 2009)
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
||1941 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
||1596 – Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (b. 1540)
||1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)
||1860 – János Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1802)
||1961 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
||1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
||1967 – United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] counteract effects of [[Extract of Radium]].
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] counteract effects of [[Extract of Radium]].
File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
 
||1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
 
|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[Gnomon algorithm function]].
 
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
||2015 – Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
||2017 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (b. 1926)
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  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.

    1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

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