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File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1449: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] runs early version of [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC program]], predicts [[Manhattan Project]] within 99.5% probability. | ||1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage. | ||
File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1592: [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] predicts that [[The Eel]] will escape the [[Nacreum]] "the moment our backs are turned." | |||
File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1592: [[The Eel]], freshly incarcerated in the [[Nacreum]], remains defiant. | ||1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652) | ||
File:Scrimshaw_Edward_Burdett.jpg|link=Scrimshaw (nonfiction)|1595: "Priceless [[Scrimshaw (nonfiction)|Scrimshaw collection]] shall be mine," vows pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]]. | |||
||1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster. | |||
||1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. | |||
||1880 – Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930) | |||
||1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show. | |||
||1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol. | |||
||1919 – Hermann Bondi, English-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (d. 2005) | |||
||1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing. | |||
||1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary. | |||
||1952 – The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent. | |||
||1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens. | |||
||1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor. | |||
||1993 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) | |||
||1999 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925) | |||
||2008 – Jacques Piccard, Swiss oceanographer and engineer (b. 1922) | |||
|File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1449: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] runs early version of [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC program]], predicts [[Manhattan Project]] within 99.5% probability. | |||
|File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1592: [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] predicts that [[The Eel]] will escape the [[Nacreum]] "the moment our backs are turned." | |||
|File:The_Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1592: [[The Eel]], freshly incarcerated in the [[Nacreum]], remains defiant. | |||
|File:Scrimshaw_Edward_Burdett.jpg|link=Scrimshaw (nonfiction)|1595: "Priceless [[Scrimshaw (nonfiction)|Scrimshaw collection]] shall be mine," vows pirate captain [[Cinnamon Jack (pirate)|Cinnamon Jack]]. | |||
||Oskar Barnack (1 November 1879 – 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. | ||Oskar Barnack (1 November 1879 – 16 January 1936) was a German optical engineer, precision mechanic, industrial designer, and the father of 35 mm photography. | ||
File:Didgeridoo wax mouthpiece seal.jpg|link=Geometry solvent|1942: Wax seal on feeding tube enables supervillain [[Gnotilus]] to secrete [[geometry solvent]] directly into [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]. | |File:Didgeridoo wax mouthpiece seal.jpg|link=Geometry solvent|1942: Wax seal on feeding tube enables supervillain [[Gnotilus]] to secrete [[geometry solvent]] directly into [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]. | ||
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1943: ENIAC ("[[ENIAC (SETI)|Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") provides technical and aesthetic assistance to [[Manhattan Project]]. | |File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1943: ENIAC ("[[ENIAC (SETI)|Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") provides technical and aesthetic assistance to [[Manhattan Project]]. | ||
File:Craniometer phrenology.png|link=Phrenocracy|1961: [[Phrenocracy|Phrenocratic craniometry]] provided free to qualified [[Waif (nonfiction)|waifs]]. | |File:Craniometer phrenology.png|link=Phrenocracy|1961: [[Phrenocracy|Phrenocratic craniometry]] provided free to qualified [[Waif (nonfiction)|waifs]]. | ||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' damages entire class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' damages entire class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
File:Sprouts_two_spot_game.png|1973: The [[Sprouts (game) (nonfiction)|Sprouts game]], which [[Brainiac]] uses to envelope its [[Predation (nonfiction)|prey]]. | |File:Sprouts_two_spot_game.png|1973: The [[Sprouts (game) (nonfiction)|Sprouts game]], which [[Brainiac]] uses to envelope its [[Predation (nonfiction)|prey]]. | ||
File:Superman-fighting-Brainiac.jpg|1973: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] and [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] accuse each other of cheating at [[Sprouts (game) (nonfiction)|Sprouts]]. | |File:Superman-fighting-Brainiac.jpg|1973: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] and [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] accuse each other of cheating at [[Sprouts (game) (nonfiction)|Sprouts]]. | ||
File:Analytical Engine printer.jpg|link=Analytical_Engine_(nonfiction)|2015: Early version of [[Analytical Engine (nonfiction)|Analytical Engine]] happy to know that future versions will be even better. | |File:Analytical Engine printer.jpg|link=Analytical_Engine_(nonfiction)|2015: Early version of [[Analytical Engine (nonfiction)|Analytical Engine]] happy to know that future versions will be even better. | ||
File:Black_hellebore.jpg|link=Hellebore (nonfiction)|2016: [[Hellebore (nonfiction)|Black hellebore]] in black mood today. | |File:Black_hellebore.jpg|link=Hellebore (nonfiction)|2016: [[Hellebore (nonfiction)|Black hellebore]] in black mood today. | ||
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