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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:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1109: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] vows to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1109: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] vows to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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]].
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:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1947: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms."
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1947: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms."
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1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)
1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1972 – The United States performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, which was part of the series Operation Grommet and Operation Toggle.
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.
1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.

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