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||1549 – Johannes Honter, Romanian-Hungarian cartographer and theologian (b. 1498)
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1656: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] publishes the first of his ''Lettres provinciales''.
File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1656: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] publishes the first of his ''Lettres provinciales''.
||1719 – John Landen, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1790)
||1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1717)
||1799 – Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (d. 1858)
||Claude Chappe (d. January 23, 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his "mechanical internet."
||1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (d. 1905)
||1846 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1915)


File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1855 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (d. 1926)
||1857 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (d. 1936)


File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] born. he will discover and develop a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
||1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
||1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (d. 1946)
||1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
||1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
||1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
||1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
||1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
||1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||Hans Hass (b. 23 January 1919) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater.
||1920 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (d. 2010)
||1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1941: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
||1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (d. 2013)
||1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
||1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.


File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1967: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
||Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov (d. 23 January 1987) was a Russian mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities.


File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|2003: A very weak signal from ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' is detected for the last time; no usable data can be extracted.

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