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|File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1565: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1565: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
||1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
||1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist (d. 1848)
||1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879)
||Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard FRS (d. 1894), also known as Charles Edward, was a Mauritian physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome.
||1900 – The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
||1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
||1902 – "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.


File:Jan Tschichold (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|link=Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|1902: Graphic designer and typographer [[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]] born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
File:Jan Tschichold (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|link=Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|1902: Graphic designer and typographer [[Jan Tschichold (nonfiction)|Jan Tschichold]] born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
||1910 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian spiritual medium (d. 2002)
||1911 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
||1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
||1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
File:Turbulent Head.png|link=Turbulent Head|1922: ''Turbulent Head'' awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
File:Turbulent Head.png|link=Turbulent Head|1922: ''Turbulent Head'' awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
File:George Spencer-Browne.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|1923: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] born. He will write ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:George Spencer-Browne.jpg|link=George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|1923: Polymath [[George Spencer-Brown (nonfiction)|George Spencer-Brown]] born. He will write ''Laws of Form'', calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1924: Famed gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1924: Famed gem detective [[Niles Cartouchian]] foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.
||1928 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
||1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
||1934 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist (d. 2007)
||1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
||1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
||1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
||1972 – Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
||1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
||1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
||1979 – A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
||1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
||1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
||1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
||1995 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||2002 – John R. Pierce, American engineer and author (b. 1910) TV radio sound
||2004 – John Argyris, Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1913)
||2007 – Henry L. Giclas, American astronomer and academic (b. 1910)
||2016 – Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist and illustrator (b. 1929)
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  • 1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

    1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

  • 1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

    1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

  • 1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

    1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

  • 1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

    1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

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