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File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1527:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Arabic to Latin.
File:Federico Commandino.jpg|link=Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|1527:  Publication of mathematician [[Federico Commandino (nonfiction)|Federico Commandino]]'s translation of [[Gnomon algorithm]] textbooks from Arabic to Latin.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1832: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1832: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.


File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
||1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
||1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)


File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
||1861 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)
||1863 – Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer (d. 1935)
||1869 – Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)
||1878 – Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1887: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1887: [[Transdimensional corporation|Transdimensional corporation mascot]] spontaneously generates sales pitch for [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]].
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
||1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
||1894 – Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)
||1913 – Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (d. 2001)
||1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1924 – Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
||1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
File:Wolfgang_Pauli.jpg|link=Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|1958: Theoretical physicist [[Wolfgang Pauli (nonfiction)|Wolfgang Pauli]] dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.[1]
 
||1960 – Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
 
||1961 – Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
 
||1965 – Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
 
||1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
 
||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (d. 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.
 
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
||1971 – Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1979: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1979: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2016: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] appears in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
||1993 – William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
 
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|2000: The third reactor at the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] is shut down.
 
||2003 – George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
 
||2015 – Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)
 
|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2016: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] appears in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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