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File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives speech which anticipates the coming of [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]].
File:Dionysos kantharos.jpg|link=Dionysus (nonfiction)|500 BC: [[Dionysus (nonfiction)|Dionysus]] gives speech which anticipates the coming of [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]].
File:Saturnus.jpg|link=Saturnalia (nonfiction)|497 BC: The first [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia festival]] celebrated in ancient Rome.
File:Saturnus.jpg|link=Saturnalia (nonfiction)|497 BC: The first [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia festival]] celebrated in ancient Rome.
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|951: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] invents new form of [[scrying engine]].
 
|File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|951: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] invents new form of [[scrying engine]].
 
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1706: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] born.  She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's ''Principia Mathematica''.
File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1706: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] born.  She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's ''Principia Mathematica''.
||1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
||1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
||1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
||1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812)
||1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and academic (d. 1899)
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] devotes himself to fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
||1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called [[Chaos theory (nonfiction)|chaos theory]].
||1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1907: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] dies.  He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1907: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] dies.  He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time.
File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|2004: [[HAL 9000]] blames "inherent perversity of [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]]" for death of crew and passengers.
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||1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)
File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1938: Physicist [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
||1940 – Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
||1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
||1961 – Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
||1964 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)


1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
||1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.


1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time.


1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
||2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.


1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
|File:HAL9000.svg|link=HAL 9000|2004: [[HAL 9000]] blames "inherent perversity of [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]]" for death of crew and passengers.


1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
||2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)


1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
||2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
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