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File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | ||
||1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born ... widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His novel ''Don Quixote'' has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects; it is, after the Bible, the most-translated book in the world. Pic. | |||
||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."
2015: Two Creatures 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.