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File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1598: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:James Ferguson.jpg|link=James Ferguson (nonfiction)|1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author [[James Ferguson (nonfiction)|James Ferguson]] born.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
 
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1959: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]]. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
 
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2017: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty kilograms of [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
 
File:Andrey Kolmogorov.jpg|link=Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and academic [[Andrey Kolmogorov (nonfiction)|Andrey Kolmogorov]] born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
 
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller [[The Eel]] stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] from destroying the [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'']].
 
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS ''Triton'' completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
 
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  • 1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

    1710: Astronomer, instrument maker, and author James Ferguson born.

  • 1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1817: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville born. He will invent the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

    1903: Mathematician and academic Andrey Kolmogorov born. He will make significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.

  • 1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

    1960: Mathematician, art critic, and alleged time-traveller The Eel stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter from destroying the United States Navy submarine USS Triton.

  • 1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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