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File:Christian Egenolff.jpg|link=Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|1555: [[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]] dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main. | |||
File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight." | File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight." | ||
File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes. | ||
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1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs new type of airship powered by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft.
1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
Artist-Engineer Don Tasmian uses Rotoscope technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1984: Advances in Time travel technology generate record profits for transdimensional corporations.