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||303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
||1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
||1588 – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (b. 1515)
||1709 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (d. 1782)
||1721 – John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (d. 1796)
||Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (d. 1799) was a German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany.
||1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
||1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.  
||1812 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
||1815 – Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
||1825 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
||1848 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (d. 1907)
||1856 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)


File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1861: ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' used to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1861: ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' used to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies.  He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1954: [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] uses ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1854 – A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
 
||1898 – Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (d. 1983)
 
||1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
 
||1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
 
||1933 – Judah Folkman, American physician and biologist (d. 2008)
 
||1939 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
 
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1955: [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] uses ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
 
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' occurred near the Bahamas.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1971: New evidence suggests that the events depicted in ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' occurred near the Bahamas.


||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies.
||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies.
||1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.


File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies.
File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies.
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|2001: [[Brion Gysin]] delivers eulogy for [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]].
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|2001: [[Brion Gysin]] delivers eulogy for [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]].
||2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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