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||394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, was written.
||1217 – Eustace the Monk, French pirate (b. 1170)
||1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
||1595 – Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1546)
||1824 – Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
||1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1888: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1888: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1899: Author and crime-fighter [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] publishes new collection of short stories based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].  
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1891: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the motion picture camera.
 
||1893 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978)
 
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1896: Author and crime-fighter [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] publishes new collection of short stories based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].  
 
||1899 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
 
File:Jorge Luis Borges.jpg|link=Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator [[Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|Jorge Luis Borges]] born. His best-known books, ''Ficciones'' (''Fictions'') and ''El Aleph'' (''The Aleph''), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
 


File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
File:Howard Zinn 2009.jpg|link=Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist [[Howard Zinn (nonfiction)|Howard Zinn]] born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
||1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
||1941 – Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
||1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
||1970 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
||2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1926)


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars.  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' sells for three million dollars.  


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  • 1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    1888: Rudolf Clausius dies. He was one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

  • 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

    1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

  • 1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

    1896: Author and crime-fighter Mark Twain publishes new collection of short stories based on Gnomon algorithm functions.

  • 1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

    1899: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges born. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, will be compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.

  • 1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    1922: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn born. He will write extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden sells for three million dollars.

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