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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against laws of planetary motion]].
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against laws of planetary motion]].


||1736 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist and engineer (d. 1819)
||1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1683)
||1798 – Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1857)
||1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (d. 1872)
||1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
||Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (b. 1851) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation.
||1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)


File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.


File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1883: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. He will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1883: Mathematician [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born. He will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.


File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1884: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] uses what will later be called the Gramme Device to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1884: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] uses what will later be called the Gramme Device to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)
||1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1915: Georges Claude patents the [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising.
||1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
||1917 – Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
||1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
||1930 – Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (b. 1903)
||1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
||1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)
||1940 – You Nazty Spy!, the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
||1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
||1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
||1952 – Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
||1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
||1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
||1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (b. 1886)
||1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
||1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
||1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
||1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (b. 1918)
||1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
||2007 – Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
||2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.


File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|2015: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|2015: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.

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