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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1551: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."
||1660 – André Tacquet, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1612)


File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."


||Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes spelled Friederich; 22 December 1765 – 21 April 1825) was a German mathematician.
||Johann Friedrich Pfaff (sometimes spelled Friederich; b. 22 December 1765) was a German mathematician.
 
||1788 – Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) Environmental cancer
 
||1799 – Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist (d. 1864)
 
||1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (d. 1892)
 
||1828 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (b. 1766)
 
||1839 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917)
 
||1853 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919)


File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1858: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
||1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788)
||1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931)
||1884 – St. Elmo Brady, African American chemist and educator (d. 1966)
||1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920)
||1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason.
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of treason.
||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
 
||1898 – Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)
 
||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (b. 22 December 1905) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.


File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot.
File:Das Gespenst eines Flohs.jpg|link=Monster (nonfiction)|1920: Lecture by [[Monster (nonfiction)|monster]] ends in riot.
File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1943: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] uses [[Clandestiphrine]] to increase fear of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
 
File:IF-THEN-ELSE-END flowchart.svg.png|link=Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|1974: New theory of [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] accidentally releases [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
||1925 – Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1979: ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' produces actual [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].  
 
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1980: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] affects space horror film ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
||1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1981: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' announces campaign to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
|File:Der Reichsspritzenmeister.jpg|link=Der Reichsspritzenmeister|1943: [[Der Reichsspritzenmeister]] uses [[Clandestiphrine]] to increase fear of [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
 
||1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
 
|File:IF-THEN-ELSE-END flowchart.svg.png|link=Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|1974: New theory of [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]] accidentally releases [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].
 
|File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1979: ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' produces actual [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]].  
 
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1980: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] affects space horror film ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
 
|File:Alien-cast.jpg|link=Alien (film) (nonfiction)|1981: Cast of ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]'' announces campaign to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1996 – Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916)
 
||2014 – John Robert Beyster, American physicist and academic (b. 1924)
 
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  • 1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1550: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini born. His work will promote rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

    1551: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman publishes "The Legend of Neptune Slaughter, a Tale of Monstrous Disaster from Beyond the Islands and the Oceans of the Furthest East."

  • 1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

    1732: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright born. Later in his life Arkwright will be known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."

  • 1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

    1858: Composer Giacomo Puccini born. He will be called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

  • 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

    1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

  • 1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

    1920: Lecture by monster ends in riot.

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