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1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1958: Theoretical physicist 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".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
1979: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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 ||1914: Anatole Abragam born ... physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Pic.
+|link=|11915: Henry Roscoe dies ... chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies. Pic.
 ||1916: Maurice Wilkins born ... physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.