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File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1667: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus. | File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1667: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus. | ||
File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of | File:Abraham de Moivre.jpg|link=Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|1753: Mathematician and theorist [[Abraham de Moivre (nonfiction)|Abraham de Moivre]] publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, ''The Doctrine of Chances'', with an addendum on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to the psychology of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828) | ||1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist (d. 1828) | ||
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1667: Mathematician Johann Bernouli born. He will make important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1753: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Artist Andy Warhol born. He will be a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1929: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an invitation to meet Andy Warhol."
1996: NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates twenty-first anniversary of the NASA announcement that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.