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1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1905: Albert Einstein sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.

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 ||1895: Karl Hermann Knoblauch dies ... physicist. He is most notable for his studies of radiant heat. He was one of the six founding members of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft at Berlin on 14 January 1845. Pic.
-File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1907: Spike in [[crimes against mathematical constants]] blamed on upcoming [[Tunguska event (nonfiction)|Tunguska event]].
 File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in ''Annalen der Physik''.
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 ||1972: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik dies ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
-File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1963: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] publishes his theory of quantum gnomo-electronics; his ideas quickly find application in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against physical constants]].
 ||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic.