Template:Selected anniversaries/February 9
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1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão uses primitive Brownian ratchet to design improved airship.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1984: Advances in Time travel technology generate record profits for transdimensional corporations.