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1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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.
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.
2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

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 ||1878: Alfred Bird dies ... chemist and businessman, invented baking powder. Pic search.
-File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1887: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
 ||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pic.
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 ||1894: Vibert Douglas born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search.
-||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search
+||1912: Reuben Louis Goodstein born ... mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. Pic search.
 ||1913: Roger Gaudry born ... chemist and businessman. Pic.
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 ||2015: Harry Zvi Tabor dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic (science!).
-File:Pilgrim.jpg|link=Pilgrim (image) (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Pilgrim (image) (nonfiction)|Pilgrim]]'' stolen from the Walker Art Museum in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
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