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||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||
||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born. | File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born. | ||
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1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Laurentius Paulinus Gothus publishes his landmark study Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to compute Gnomon algorithm functions.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1953: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta testifies before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.