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||1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671)


|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
File:Franciscus_Raphelengius.jpg|link=Franciscus Raphelengius (nonfiction)|1539: Scholar, printer, and bookseller [[Franciscus Raphelengius (nonfiction)|Franciscus Raphelengius]] born. Raphelengius will produce an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which will be published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.  


File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. Arbuthnot invented the figure of John Bull.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1869: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] born. Hamilton will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.


||1748 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born.  Brouwer will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
 
|File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
 
File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1869: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
 
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|1870: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] generate new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born.  He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
 
||Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (d. 27 February 1894), also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt (Russian: Карл Ге́нрихович Шмидт) was a Baltic German chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.
 
||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)
 
||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993)  He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II.  Pic.
 
||1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)
 
||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
 
||Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob (b. February 27, 1910) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic.
 
||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician.
 
||1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
 
||1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
 
||1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
 
||1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
 
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.


File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.


||1943 – In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
File:Back On the Supply Chain Gang.jpg|link=Back On the Supply Chain Gang|1982: The song "'''[[Back On the Supply Chain Gang]]'''" by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections reaches number one on the Gnomon Chronicles pop music chart.  
 
||1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
 
||1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 
||2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
 
||2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
 
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]].


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