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500BC: Achilles and Ajax play dice to determine who will attend the Lucky Spasm Dice Academy.
1677: Mathematician and theologian Isaac Barrow dies. He played an early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus.
1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1825: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1860: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions for use in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1921: Physicist Harry Daghlian born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1943: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

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 File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1733: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] born. He will contribute to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
+File:Thomas Henry Huxley.jpg|link=Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|1825: Biologist [[Thomas Henry Huxley (nonfiction)|Thomas Henry Huxley]] born. He will be known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
 File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1860: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for use in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].