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||1586 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670) | |||
||1778 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) | |||
||1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia. | |||
||1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) | |||
||1863 – Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914) | |||
||1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794) | |||
||1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932) | |||
||1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951) | |||
||1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816) | |||
||1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs. | |||
||1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable. | |||
||1907 – John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989) | |||
||1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934) | |||
||1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000) | |||
||1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time. | |||
||1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002) | |||
||1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths. | |||
||1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene. | |||
||1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War. | |||
||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007) | |||
||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. | |||
||1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015) | |||
||Erhard Schmidt (d. 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. | ||Erhard Schmidt (d. 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. | ||
File:Humans Love It.png|link=Humans Love It!|2002: "[[Humans Love It!]]" becomes official motto of [[Extract of Radium]]. | ||1980 – Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911) | ||
File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[scrying engine]]. | |||
|File:Humans Love It.png|link=Humans Love It!|2002: "[[Humans Love It!]]" becomes official motto of [[Extract of Radium]]. | |||
|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|2004: Goethe's [[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] used in new form of [[scrying engine]]. | |||
||2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. | |||
File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''. | File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''. | ||
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