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File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1152: [[Anarchimedes]] casts horoscope in effort to predicts results of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1152: [[Anarchimedes]] casts horoscope in effort to predicts results of the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens.
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1409: The [[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|University of Leipzig]] opens.


File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] predicts that ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' will be released in 1973.
||1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (b. 1512)


File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1973: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' reports strange dream about [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curves]] and the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
||1759 – James Edward Smith, English botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society (d. 1828)
 
||1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
 
||1845 – Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
 
||1859 – John Brown, American activist and murderer (b. 1800)
 
||1863 – Charles Edward Ringling, American businessman, co-founded the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1926)
 
||1885 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
 
||1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (d. 1969)
 
||1899 – Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
 
||1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (d. 1977)
 
||1908 – Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
 
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] predicts that ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' will be released in 1973.
 
||1927 – Paul Heinrich von Groth, German scientist who systematically classified minerals and founded the journal Zeitschrift für Krystallographie und Mineralogie (b. 1843)
 
||1930 – Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,150,000,000 in 2016) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
 
||1939 – New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.


File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: During the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]], a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
||1954 – Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".


||Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ForMemRS (d. 2 December 1966), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. He was the founder of the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
||Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer ForMemRS (d. 2 December 1966), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. He was the founder of the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
||1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
||1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
||1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist (b. 1914)
||1993 – Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
||1995 – Mária Telkes, Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (b. 1900)
||2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.


|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|[[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] proposes joint venture with [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|[[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] proposes joint venture with [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].

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