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||1492 The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
||1492: The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.


File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
File:Bernardino Telesio.jpg|link=Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|1509: Philosopher and scientist [[Bernardino Telesio (nonfiction)|Bernardino Telesio]] born. His emphasis on observation will influence the emergence of the scientific method.
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File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1818: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] born. He will discover nerve action potential, and develop experimental electrophysiology.


||1837 In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
||1837: In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.


File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born.  She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1867: Physicist and chemist [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] born.  She will conduct pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
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File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] dies. He made important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.


||1878 Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1968)
||1878: Lise Meitner born ... physicist and academic.


||1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
||1879: Leon Trotsky born ... theorist and politician, founded the Red Army.


||1886 Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player and theoretician (d. 1935)
||1886: Aron Nimzowitsch born ... chess player and theoretician (d. 1935)


||1888 C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
||1888: C. V. Raman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1891 Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD (d. 1938)
||1891: Genrikh Yagoda born ... director of the NKVD.


||1898 Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
||1898: Raphaël Salem born ... mathematician and academic.


||Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (b. November 7, 1899) was a German born Jewish American theoretical physicist.
||1899: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim ... born ... theoretical physicist.


||Jean Leray (b. 7 November 1906) was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.
||1906: Jean Leray born ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.


||1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
||1910: The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.


||Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (b. November 7, 1911), was a leading missile designer in the Soviet Union.
||1911: Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel born ... missile designer in the Soviet Union.


||Philip Morrison (b. November 7, 1915) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic.
||1915: Philip Morrison born ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics. Pic.


||Félix Pisani (d. 7 November 1920, Paris) was a French chemist and mineralogist.
||1920: Félix Pisani dies ... chemist and mineralogist.


||1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
||1929: In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.


||Max Bergmann (b. 7 November 1944) was a Jewish-German biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.
||1944: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides.


||1944 Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
||1944: Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.


||Carl Wilhelm Oseen (d. 7 November 1944) was a theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic.
||1944: Carl Wilhelm Oseen dies ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic.


||1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
||1957: Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.


File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1958: Astronomer and crime-fighter [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] analyzes the radial velocities for galaxies, reveals previously unknown [[crimes against astronomical constants]].
||1967: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg dies ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1972: [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] is reelected President of the United States.
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|1973: The United States Congress overrides President [[Richard Nixon (nonfiction)|Richard M. Nixon]]'s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.


||1983 United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
||1983: United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.


||Alexander Osipovich Gelfond (d. 7 November 1968) was a Soviet mathematician.
||1968: Alexander Osipovich Gelfond ... mathematician.


File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]].
File:Mars Global Surveyor.jpg|link=Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|1996: NASA launches the [[Mars Global Surveyor (nonfiction)|Mars Global Surveyor]].


||2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
||2000: Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.


||2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
||2000: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.


|File:Bacon's_Drama_Dial.jpg|link=Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition|1709: [[Shakespeare-Magellan Expedition]] receives funding soon, according to recent [[cryptographic numen]].
|File:Companion of Asclepius Myrmidon.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1872: [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] provides emergency medical services after [[Pi disaster]].
|File:Hazmatterhorn.jpg|link=Hazmatterhorn|2014: [[Hazmatterhorn]] feeling restless inside bottle, warn experts.
|File:Red Eyes.jpg|link=Red Eyes|2016: [[Red Eyes]] announces intent to acquire [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon''.
|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2016: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' stolen by supervillain [[Gnotilus]];  painting may hold key to [[Manhattan Project|abstract expressionist weapons]].
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