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||1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. | ||1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. | ||
||Wilhelm Xylander (d. 10 February 1576) was a German classical scholar and humanist. | |||
||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) | ||1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (d. 1836) | ||
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1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.
