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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1931: crossword puzzle used in scrying engine for the first time.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.

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 File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1931: [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]] used in [[scrying engine]] for the first time.
 File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
+File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies.  She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
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