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||1482 – Jo Gwang-jo, Korean philosopher (d. 1520)
||1540 – Guillaume Budé, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1467
||1659 – Henry Every, English pirate (d. 1696)
||1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (d. 1675)
||1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic (d. 1832)
||1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852)
||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
||1829 – Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (d. 1920)
||1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion is suppressed.
||1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
||1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
||1875 – William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (d. 1966)
|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] invents record number of witticisms.
||1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
||1919 – Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist (d. 1984)
||1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
||1923 – Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer (d. 2003)
||1923 – Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
||1954 – Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)


File:First view of Earth from Moon.jpg|link=Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|1966: [[Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|Lunar Orbiter 1]] takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
File:First view of Earth from Moon.jpg|link=Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|1966: [[Lunar Orbiter 1 (nonfiction)|Lunar Orbiter 1]] takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
||1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
||1982 – Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)


File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as [[AESOP]].
File:Mir.jpg|link=Mir (nonfiction)|1999: Sensors on the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir spacecraft]] detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as [[AESOP]].
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|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.
|File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|[[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts.


||1991 – The World Wide Web is opened to the public.


File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1999: Biochemist and crystallographer [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] dies.  He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1999: Biochemist and crystallographer [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] dies.  He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

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  • 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

    1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.

  • 1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

    1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.

  • 1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

    1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

  • 2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

    2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.

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