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1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born. He will invent the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.

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 ||1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu baptized ... was an English aristocrat, letter writer and poet. Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which have been described by Billie Melman as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". Aside from her writing, Lady Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey.  Pic.
-||1814: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler born ... glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube.
+File:Heinrich Geissler.jpg|link=Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|1814: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor [[Heinrich Geißler (nonfiction)|Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler]] born. He will invent the [[Geissler tube (nonfiction)|Geissler tube]], made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
 ||1838: Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue born ... marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia.  Pic.