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||1878: Alfred Bird dies ... chemist and businessman, invented baking powder. Pic search.
||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.
||1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pic.
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||2015: Harry Zvi Tabor dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic (science!).
||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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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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".

    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.

    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.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

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