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File:Katsudō Shashin.jpg|link=Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|[[Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|Katsudō Shashin]] "charming to this day," say film enthusiasts. | ||1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490) | ||
File:Slinky.jpg|link=Spring (device) (nonfiction)|[[Spring (device) (nonfiction)|Slinky]] prepares for epic journey down escalator. | |||
File:Cheddar Cheese crop from Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg|link=Pop art (nonfiction)|[[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] asks where [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] keeps the can opener. | ||1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) | ||
File:K1 chronometer.jpg|link=K1: My Life at Sea|[[K1: My Time at Sea|K1 chronometer]] will be next celebrity judge on [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]]. | |||
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1939: Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] born. In 1987, he will take his own life during a press conference. | ||1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. | ||
File:Nebraska sand hills from space.jpg|link=Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|[[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]] said to be hiding place for [[Snakes on a plane]]. | |||
File:Ridley Scott (23716888011).jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|[[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] to make film about [[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]]. | ||1737 – José Antonio Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799) | ||
File:Johannesmagistris-square.jpg|link=Square of opposition (nonfiction)|National [[Square of opposition (nonfiction)|Square of Opposition]] Day. | |||
||1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. | |||
||1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. | |||
||1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. | |||
||1913 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician, author, and academic (d. 1975) | |||
||1927 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. | |||
||1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and physicist (d. 1985) | |||
||1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. | |||
||1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal. | |||
||1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. | |||
||1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) | |||
||1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. | |||
||1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair. | |||
||1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) | |||
||2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926) | |||
|File:Katsudō Shashin.jpg|link=Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|[[Katsudō Shashin (nonfiction)|Katsudō Shashin]] "charming to this day," say film enthusiasts. | |||
|File:Slinky.jpg|link=Spring (device) (nonfiction)|[[Spring (device) (nonfiction)|Slinky]] prepares for epic journey down escalator. | |||
|File:Cheddar Cheese crop from Campbells Soup Cans MOMA.jpg|link=Pop art (nonfiction)|[[Pop art (nonfiction)|Pop art]] asks where [[Andy Warhol (nonfiction)|Andy Warhol]] keeps the can opener. | |||
|File:K1 chronometer.jpg|link=K1: My Life at Sea|[[K1: My Time at Sea|K1 chronometer]] will be next celebrity judge on [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]]. | |||
|File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1939: Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] born. In 1987, he will take his own life during a press conference. | |||
|File:Nebraska sand hills from space.jpg|link=Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|[[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]] said to be hiding place for [[Snakes on a plane]]. | |||
|File:Ridley Scott (23716888011).jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|[[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] to make film about [[Nebraska sandhills (nonfiction)|Nebraska sandhills]]. | |||
|File:Johannesmagistris-square.jpg|link=Square of opposition (nonfiction)|National [[Square of opposition (nonfiction)|Square of Opposition]] Day. | |||
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