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||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
||1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.


File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1824: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1827: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.


File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

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  • 1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.

    1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.

  • 1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.

    1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.

  • 1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.

    1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.

  • 1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

    1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

  • 1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.

    1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.

  • 1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

    1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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