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|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1585 – A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
||1607 – Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician (d. 1665)
||1673 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641)


File:Robert Fulton.jpg|link=Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|1807: [[Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|Robert Fulton]]'s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
File:Robert Fulton.jpg|link=Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|1807: [[Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|Robert Fulton]]'s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
||1828 – Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (d. 1897)
||1862 – American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.


||Paul Kammerer (b. 17 August 1880) was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated Lamarckism
||Paul Kammerer (b. 17 August 1880) was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated Lamarckism


||1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
||1896 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970)
 
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] condemns [[Extract of Radium]] as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
 
||1908 – ''Fantasmagorie'', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.


||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess
||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess


File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] condemns [[Extract of Radium]] as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
||1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.


File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
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||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
||1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
||1953 – Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.


||1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
||1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
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File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
||1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
||1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.


||1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
||1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
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||2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) - solar neutrino problem
||2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) - solar neutrino problem
||GW170817 was a gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration on 17 August 2017, and was the first gravitational wave event that was observed to have a simultaneous electromagnetic signal, thereby marking a significant breakthrough for multi-messenger astronomy.


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