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||1533 – Atahualpa, Inca emperor (b. 1497)
||1533: Atahualpa dies ... Inca emperor.


||1632 – John Locke, English physician and philosopher (d. 1704)
||1632: John Locke born ... physician and philosopher.


File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1651: Scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] demonstrates water-powered automaton which detects and prevents [[crimes against geology]].
File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1651: Scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] demonstrates water-powered automaton which detects and prevents [[crimes against geology]].


||1712 – Gregory King, English genealogist, engraver, and statistician (b. 1648)
||1712: Gregory King dies ... genealogist, engraver, and statistician.


||1749 – Matthias Bel, Hungarian pastor and polymath (b. 1684)
||1749: Matthias Bel dies ... pastor and polymath.


||1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1830)
||1756: Jan Śniadecki born ... mathematician and astronomer.


File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1780: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
File:Ingres self-portrait.jpg|link=Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|1780: Artist [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (nonfiction)|Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]] born. He will assume the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.


||Johann Hieronymus Schröter (d. 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.
||1816: Johann Hieronymus Schröter dies ... astronomer.


||1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
||1831: Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction.


||1831 – Michael Faraday (pictured) discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of his law of induction.
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.


File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks during a test run, killing five members of her crew.
||1873: Hermann Hankel dies ... mathematician. His 1867 exposition on complex numbers and quaternions is particularly memorable. Pic.


||Hermann Hankel (d. 29 August 1873) was a German mathematician. His 1867 exposition on complex numbers and quaternions is particularly memorable. Pic.
||1884: William Francis Gray Swann born ... physicist.


||William Francis Gray Swann (b. August 29, 1884) was an Anglo-American physicist.
||1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.


||1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
||1889: Stanisław Ruziewicz born ... mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic.


||Stanisław Ruziewicz (b. 29 August 1889) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic.
||1913: Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels dies.


||Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (d. 29 August 1913)
||1914: Bernard Vonnegut born ... atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. He was the older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Pic: http://www.atmos.albany.edu/daes/bvonn/bvonnegut.html


||1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
||1915: US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.


File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1929: Physicist, academic, and criminologist [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] discovers the first evidence that isotopes the stable element neon are vulnerable to [[crimes against physical constants]].


||Otto Ludwig Hölder (d. August 29, 1937) was a German mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic.
||1937: Otto Ludwig Hölder dies ... mathematician. He will discover Hölder's inequality, a fundamental inequality between integrals and an indispensable tool for the study of Lp spaces. Pic.


||1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
||1949: Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.


||1965 – The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
||1965: The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.


||Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin (d. 29 August 1990) was a Soviet mathematician of who worked in the fields of linear elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best known for the introduction of the concept of "symbol of a singular integral operator", which eventually led to the foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential operators. Pic.
||1990: Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin dies ... mathematician of who worked in the fields of linear elasticity, singular integrals and numerical analysis: he is best known for the introduction of the concept of "symbol of a singular integral operator", which eventually led to the foundation and development of the theory of pseudodifferential operators. Pic.


||1990 – Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian-American mystic and author (b. 1901)
||1990: Manly Palmer Hall dies ... mystic and author.


||2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
||2007: United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
||2007 – Six nuclear warheads were alleged to have been mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.


File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2011: Cryptographic analysis of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.
File:Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research.jpg|link=Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research|2011: Cryptographic analysis of ''[[Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research]]'' reveals five terabytes of previously unknown encrypted data.

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