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||322 BC– Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC) | |||
||1492 – Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415) | |||
||1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips. | |||
||1725 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) | |||
||1773 – America's first insane asylum opens. | |||
||1792 – Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1860) | |||
||1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. | |||
||1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG. | |||
||1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) | |||
||1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) | |||
||1875 – Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947) | |||
||1910 – Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (d. 2013) | |||
||1914 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838) | |||
||1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | |||
||1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | |||
||1931 – Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (d. 2002) | |||
||1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. | |||
||1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast. | |||
||1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. | |||
||1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 189 | |||
||1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. | |||
||2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934) | |||
||2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941) | |||
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