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||1484 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss physician, scholar, and politician (d. 1551)
File:Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin.jpg|link=Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]] dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
File:Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin.jpg|link=Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet [[Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (nonfiction)|Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin]] dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
||1627 – John Ray, English biologist and botanist (d. 1705)
||1646 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (b. 1565)
||1694 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (b. 1628)
||1759 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1687)
||1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
||1803 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and physicist (d. 1853)
||1847 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (b. 1802)
||1873 – Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic (d. 1942)
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1877: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.


File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1849: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1849: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
File:London_cholera_map_1854.jpg|link=Endemic (nonfiction)|1855: [[Endemic (nonfiction)|London cholera map]] stolen by supervillain [[Abomynous]]; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
File:London_cholera_map_1854.jpg|link=Endemic (nonfiction)|1855: [[Endemic (nonfiction)|London cholera map]] stolen by supervillain [[Abomynous]]; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
||1882 – Henri Fabre, French pilot and engineer (d. 1984)
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1893: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead.
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1893: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming|1904: [[John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming|1904: [[John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|1918: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels.
File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|1918: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels.
File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1924: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1924: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional prison|1933: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional prison]].
 
|File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional prison|1933: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional prison]].
 
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1955: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1955: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2016: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins award for Best Reality TV Show.
 
||1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
 
||1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
 
||1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
 
||1992 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
 
||2010 – Maurice Wilkes, English physicist and computer scientist (b. 1913)
 
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]] wins award for Best Reality TV Show.
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  • 1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.

    1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.

  • 1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

    1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

  • 1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.

    1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.

  • 1855: London cholera map stolen by supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.

    1855: London cholera map stolen by supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.

  • 1893: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.

    1893: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.

  • 1904: John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1904: John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

    1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

  • 1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.

    1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.

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