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1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1881: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1913: Mathematician Samuel Eilenberg born. He will co-found category theory with Saunders Mac Lane, and propose the Eilenberg swindle (a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules).
2018: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins three Retroactive Academy Awards for Lifetime Achievement.

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 ||1751: Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans born ... inventor of early (perhaps earliest) steamboat. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois_Doroth%C3%A9e_marquis_de_Jouffroy_d%27Abbans.png
+||1775: Robert Adrain born ... mathematician, whose career was spent in the USA. He was considered one of the most brilliant mathematical minds of the time in America, during a period when few academics conducted original research. He is chiefly remembered for his formulation of the method of least squares. Pic.
 ||1813: John Rae born ... physician and explorer.