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||1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1642:  Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1642:  Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1697: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] publishes satirical history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1697: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] publishes satirical history of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)
||1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)
||1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
||1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
||1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1892: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses alternating current (AC) generators to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1892: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses alternating current (AC) generators to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (d. 2015)
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1923:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1923:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
||1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)
||1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
||1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
||1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
||1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
||1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
||1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
||1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, computes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, computes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
||1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
||2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
||2012 – Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931)
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