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File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
File:Bill of Rights.jpg|link=United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|1791: The [[United States Bill of Rights (nonfiction)|United States Bill of Rights]] becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.


||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic (CC) https://www.notrehistoire.ch/medias/90995
||1802: Jean-Daniel Colladon dies ... physicist. Light Pipe. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean-Daniel+Colladon


File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1802: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

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  • 1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

    1791: The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

  • János Bolyai.jpg

    1802: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai born. He will be one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1832: Engineer Gustave Eiffel born. He will design the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

    1836: A fire at the U.S. Patent Office destroys all 10,000 patents and several thousand related patent models.

  • 1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1857: Engineer George Cayley dies. He did pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

    1887: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."

  • 1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

    1958: Theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli dies. Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".

  • 1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

    1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.

  • 2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

    2000: The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2017: Signed first edition of Pilgrim stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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