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||1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
||1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (d. 1833)
||1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (d. 1868)
||1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart.
||1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889)
||1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
||1851 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (d. 1928)
||1851 – William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (d. 1896)
||1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788)
||1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
||1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
||1889 – Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (d. 1958)
||1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the Radar (d. 1973)
||1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
||1909 – Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1984)
||1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
||1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.


File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
||1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863)
||1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
||1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
||1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah.


File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which "forecast the emergence of [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] within a year."
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which "forecast the emergence of [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] within a year."
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File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
||1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
||1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
||1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
||1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
||1992 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)


File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

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  • 1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

    1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

  • 1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • 1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."

    1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."

  • 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

    1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.

  • 1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

    1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

  • 2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

    2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

  • 2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

    2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

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