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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 the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.

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 ||1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
+||Carl Henry Eckart (b. May 4, 1902) was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner–Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics,and the Eckart–Young theorem in linear algebra. Pic.
 File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1921: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] born.  He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.