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||1550 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631)


||1813 – John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
||1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
||1910 – Maurice Lévy, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1838)
||1925 – Arkady Ostashev, Russian engineer and educator (d. 1998)
||1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
||1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German-American biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
||1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
||1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
||1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
||1994 – André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1999 – The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.


File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.  
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