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||925 – Rhazes, Persian polymath (b. 864)
||1564 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (b. 1514)
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
||1715 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1675)
||1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
||1789 – William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (d. 1847)
||1815 – Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
||1829 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (d. 1907)
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
||1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.


File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.
||1894 – The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
||1917 – World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire.
||1919 – Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (d. 1985) Skyhook General Mills
||1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
||1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
||1953 – British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
||1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time.
||1958 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)
||1959 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1880)
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]].
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|George Cantor]].
||1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
||1980 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
||1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
||1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
||2000 – Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
||2001 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
||2003 – China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission.
||2012 – Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (b. 1953)
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  • 1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.

    1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.

  • 1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.

    1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.

  • 1891: Havelock survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.

    1891: Havelock survives shootout by tricking his enemies into shooting each other.

  • 1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.

    1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of George Cantor.

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