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File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|New survey names [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth neighborhood]] as "most popular neighborhood in [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]]."
File:Alexis Clairault.jpg|link=Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist [[Alexis Clairaut (nonfiction)|Alexis Clairaut]] dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the ''Principia'' of 1687.
 
File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer.
 
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
 
File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies.  He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
 
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  • 1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

    1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.

  • 1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

    1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.

  • 1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

    1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

  • 2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

    2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.

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