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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets films an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada; his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.

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 ||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
+File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] films an episode of ''Peter Giblets Hour'' in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]; his guests include [[Niles Cartouchian]] and Pierre Trudeau.
 ||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". Pic.