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1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1893: Chemist and astronomer Harold Urey born. Urey's pioneering work on isotopes will earn him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium; he will also play a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, and contribute to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.
1951: Philosopher and academic Ludwig Wittgenstein dies. Wittgenstein contributed to logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
2008: Chemist and academic Albert Hoffman dies. Hoffman is famous for discovering LSD, which he called his "problem child".

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 ||1883: James Victor Uspensky born ... mathematician notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''. Pic.
-File:John Havelock and Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|1892: Mathematicians [[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]] co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] to within 98.37% accuracy.
 File:Harold_Urey.jpg|link=Harold Urey (nonfiction)|1893: Chemist and astronomer [[Harold Urey (nonfiction)|Harold Urey]] born. Urey's pioneering work on isotopes will earn him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium; he will also play a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, and contribute to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.
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 ||2013: Ernest Michael dies ... mathematician and scholar. Pic.
-File:Two Creatures 3.jpg|link=Two Creatures 3 (nonfiction)|2018: The two creatures depicted in ''[[Two Creatures 3 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 3]]'' officially petition the United Nations for political asylum.
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