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File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1593: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1593: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
||1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (b. 1598)
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to expose [[Brownian rackets]].
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to expose [[Brownian rackets]].
||1798 – Thomas Sandby, English cartographer, painter, and architect (b. 1721)
||1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and engineer (d. 1896)
||1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
||1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (b. 1803)
||1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (b. 1811)
||1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (d. 1944)
||1894 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (d. 1989)
||1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French engineer and politician, 5th President of France (b. 1837)
||Charles Romley Alder Wright FCS, FRS (d. 25 June 1894) was an English chemistry and physics researcher
||1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
||1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer and academic (d. 1976)
||1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1907: Nuclear physicist [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1907: Nuclear physicist [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  
File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1802: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered, authorities fear outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
 
||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
 
||1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
 
||1935 – Charles Sheffield, English-American mathematician, physicist, and author (d. 2002)
 
||1943 – The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz.
 
||1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
 
||1959 – Bobbie Vaile, Australian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1996)
 
||1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
 
||1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
 
||1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
 
||1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
 
||1984 – American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
 
||1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Russian space station Mir]].
 
||2004 – Morton W. Coutts, New Zealand inventor (b. 1904)
 
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: New computational analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: New computational analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.
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  • 1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

    1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.

  • 1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to expose Brownian rackets.

    1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to expose Brownian rackets.

  • 1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

  • 1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

    1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.

  • 2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

    2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

  • 2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

    2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

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