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||1240 – Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (b. 1165) | |||
||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703) | ||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703) | ||
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File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||
||1841 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (d. 1923) | |||
||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. | ||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. | ||
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||1914 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (d. 1997) | ||1914 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (d. 1997) | ||
||1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. | ||1922 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer (d. 2015) | ||
||1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. | |||
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. | File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. | ||
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||1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position. | ||1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico. It was aimed at the current location of the globular star cluster Messier 13 some 25,000 light years away. The message will reach empty space by the time it finally arrives since the cluster will have changed position. | ||
||1974 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882) | |||
||1982 – Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1896) | |||
||1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. | ||1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. | ||
||1922 – Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1875) | |||
||1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928) | |||
||2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) | |||
||2010 – Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (b. 1913) | |||
||2013 – Oscar Lanford, American mathematician and academic (b. 1940) | |||
|File:Achilles-wearing-petasos_Louvre_G264_n3.jpg|link=Petasos (nonfiction)|1200 BC: Achilles wears [[Petasos (nonfiction)|Petasos]], starting a a fashion craze in the ancient world. | |File:Achilles-wearing-petasos_Louvre_G264_n3.jpg|link=Petasos (nonfiction)|1200 BC: Achilles wears [[Petasos (nonfiction)|Petasos]], starting a a fashion craze in the ancient world. | ||
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1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.