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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]].


||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online.
||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online.
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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1835: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] secretly prints first edition of ''[[The Adulteration of Bergamot]]''.


||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search.
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search.
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||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
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||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.
||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic.
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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