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File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1109: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] vows to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: The short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' blamed for wave of [[Wumpus-compass syndrome]].
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1947: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms."
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1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. Ricci translated Euclid's ''Elements'' into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.


1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.


1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.


1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
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868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
 
1972 – The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
 
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.


1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.
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