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||1508 – Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1579)
||1539 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591)
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.


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File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1629: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to download award-winning children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]''.


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||1773 – Thomas Young, English physicist and physiologist (d. 1829)
 
||1822 – Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.  
||1868 – Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic (d. 1919)
||1870 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
||1876 – William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
||1884 – Leon Chwistek, Polish painter, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1944)
||1902 – Carolyn Eisele, American mathematician and historian (d. 2000)
||1903 – Willard Harrison Bennett, American physicist and chemist (d. 1987)
||1906 – Bruno de Finetti, Austrian-Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
||1911 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
||1911 – Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (d. 1977)
||1913 – Oswald Teichmüller, German mathematician (d. 1943)
||1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist and academic
||1920 – Iosif Vorovich, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
||1923 – Lloyd Conover, American chemist and inventor (d. 2017)
||1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
||1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
File:Submarine and anti-submarine (1919).jpg|link=The Unruly Submarine|1946: Celebrated children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'' wins Caldecott Medal.
File:Submarine and anti-submarine (1919).jpg|link=The Unruly Submarine|1946: Celebrated children's book ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'' wins Caldecott Medal.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1947: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes critical review of ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'', calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1947: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes critical review of ''[[The Unruly Submarine]]'', calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."
||1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
||1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
||1972 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
||1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
||1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
||2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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  • 1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

    1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

  • 1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

    1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

  • 1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

    1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

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