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1604: Johannes Kepler discovers new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1805: Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine visit Lyon and viewed Joseph Marie Jacquard's new programmable loom.
1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of quantum timeline photographs.

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 ||Joseph Finnegan (b. April 12, 1905) was a US linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War.
+||Maurice Girodias (b. 12 April 1919) was a French publisher who was the founder of the Olympia Press. At one time he was the owner of his father's Obelisk Press. He spent most of his productive years in Paris.
 ||1927 – Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.