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|File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|501 BC: Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].


||1624 – Henrik Rysensteen, Dutch military engineer (d. 1679)
File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1770: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] born. Seebeck will discover the thermoelectric effect.


||Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician.  
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1860: On his phonautograph machine, [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. A visual recording of audio data, it will first be played back in 2008.


File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1770: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] born. He will discover the thermoelectric effect.
File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] born. Steinmetz will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
 
||George Peacock (b. 9 April 1791) was an English mathematician.
 
||Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS (b. 9 April 1806), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history"
 
||1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
 
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1864: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] uses X-rays generator to expose [[Loaded dice (nonfiction)|loaded dice]], reveals organized [[math crime]] cartel in casinos around the world.
 
File:Charles Proteus Steinmetz.jpg|link=Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer [[Charles Proteus Steinmetz (nonfiction)|Charles Proteus Steinmetz]] born. He will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
 
||1883 – Frank King, American cartoonist (d. 1969)
 
||1889 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist and academic (b. 1786)
 
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
 
||1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (d. 2008)
 
||1919 – J. Presper Eckert, American engineer, invented the ENIAC (d. 1995)
 
||1921 – Mary Jackson, African American mathematician and aerospace engineer (d. 2005)
 
|File:Chautauqua Association Incorporated (1922).jpg|link=Chautauqua (nonfiction)|1922: New generation of [[Chautauqua (nonfiction)|Chautauqua]] artists educate public on the dangers of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1930 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist and academic (d. 2007)
 
||1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
 
||1945 – Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, anti-Nazi dissident and spy, by the Nazi regime.
 
||1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
 
||1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
 
||1951 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1862)
 
||1959 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (b. 1867)
 
||1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
 
||1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.


File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1978: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] performs at the Kennedy Center for the Arts.
File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1978: Musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] performs at the Kennedy Center for the Arts.


||1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
||2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (b. 1891)
||2003 – Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (b. 1949)
||2007 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (b. 1907)
||2015 – Alexander Dalgarno, English physicist and academic (b. 1928)
||2016 – Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932)
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