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File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1598: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1598: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1599: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] born.  He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
||1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1701)
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1770: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
||1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1840: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
||1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1925)
||1854 – Charles Sumner Tainter, American engineer and inventor (d. 1940)
||1868 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (d. 1910)
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1874: Businessman and inventor [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] born.  He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".
||1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
||1918 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995)
||1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1980)
||1938 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 2012)
||1944 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880)
||1953 – Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
||1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
||1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1959: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|1959: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Woodward and Burroughs announce Initial Public Offering of [[Extract of Radium]], expect to raise "several billion dollars worth of computational power."
 
||1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
 
|File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|Woodward and Burroughs announce Initial Public Offering of [[Extract of Radium]], expect to raise "several billion dollars worth of computational power."
 
||1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
 
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1983: [[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]] travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|1984: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of [[Clandestiphrine]] with no apparent ill effect.
||1996 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer and director (b. 1920)
||2000 – Lucien Le Cam, French mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
||2014 – Barbara Fiske Calhoun, American cartoonist and painter (b. 1919)
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  • 1598: Donnybrook breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, crimes against mathematical constants.

    1598: Donnybrook breaks out over who cheated at card game, leading to murder, and, eventually, crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1599: Oliver Cromwell born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

    1599: Oliver Cromwell born. He will become a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

  • 1770: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

    1770: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet dies. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.

  • 1840: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

    1840: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson dies. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.

  • 1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

    1874: Businessman and inventor Guglielmo Marconi born. He will share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

  • 1959: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

    1959: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

  • 1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

  • 1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

    1983: Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

  • 1984: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of Clandestiphrine with no apparent ill effect.

    1984: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes two hundred and fifty terabytes of Clandestiphrine with no apparent ill effect.

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