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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
1929: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.

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 ||1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
+File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.