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||1530 – Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.


File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1848 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)
||1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952)
||1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
||1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
||1886 – Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950)
||1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
||1890 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946) - Zyklon B
||1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born.  He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born.  He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.


File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]].
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]].
||1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] dies. He designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
||1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
||1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
||1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
||1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
||1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
||1967 – UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
||2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
||2003 – A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
||2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)


|File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected.
|File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|2001: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected.
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