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1527: Publication of mathematician Federico Commandino's translation of Gnomon algorithm textbooks from Arabic to Latin.
1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He pioneered aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
1887: Transdimensional corporation mascot spontaneously generates sales pitch for Mark Twain.
1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
1979: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
2016: Time travel chamber appears in New Minneapolis, Canada.

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+File:Blodget's Hotel.jpg|link=1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|1836: A [[1836 Patent Office fire (nonfiction)|fire at the U.S. Patent Office]] destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.
 File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1857: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] dies.  He pioneered aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.