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| File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. | | File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. |
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| File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1109: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] vows to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | | File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. Ricci translated Euclid's ''Elements'' into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time. |
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| ||1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)
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| ||1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
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| ||1722 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (d. 1789)
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| ||1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)
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| File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. | | File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1858: [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State. |
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| ||1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943) | | File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. |
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| ||1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
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| ||1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
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| ||1887 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (b. 1802)
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| ||1891 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1820)
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| File:Electrocuting_an_Elephant.png|link=Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|1903: The short film ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' blamed for wave of [[Wumpus-compass syndrome]].
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| File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1904: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
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| File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
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| ||1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
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| ||1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
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| ||1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic, co-developed THE multiprogramming system (d. 2002)
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| ||1934 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1852)
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| ||1943 – Clarence Ellis, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
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| ||Carlo Severini (d. 11 May 1951) was an Italian mathematician
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| ||1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
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| ||1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
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| ||1972 – The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
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| ||1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
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| ||1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
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| ||1995 – More than 170 countries extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
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| ||1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
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| ||1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
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| ||2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1905)
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| ||2011 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
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