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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | ||
||1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511) | |||
File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | ||
||1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) | |||
File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement. | File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement. | ||
||1804 – Carl von Rokitansky, German physician, pathologist, and philosopher (d. 1878) | |||
||1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert. | |||
||1859 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1927) | |||
||1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. | |||
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis". | |||
||1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people. | |||
||1946 – Karen Silkwood, American technician and activist (d. 1974) | |||
||1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. | |||
File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]]. | File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | ||
||1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket. | |||
||1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417. | |||
||2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. | |||
||2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (b. 1921) | |||
||2013 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1937) | |||
||2014 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935) | |||
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most. | File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most. | ||
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2017: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]]. | File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2017: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]]. | ||
File:Igor Shafarevich.jpg|link=Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician and dissident [[Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|Igor Shafarevich]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. | File:Igor Shafarevich.jpg|link=Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|2017: Mathematician and dissident [[Igor Shafarevich (nonfiction)|Igor Shafarevich]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry. | ||
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by transdimensional corporations.
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.