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||1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522) | ||1565 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1522) | ||
||1607 | File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts. | ||
||1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721) | ||1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721) | ||
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1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
1975: Six Seconds to Hell is "a reasonably accurate depiction of events as I experienced them," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.
1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.