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||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. | ||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. Pic. | ||
File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] publishes his landmark study ''[[Crimes against astronomical constants|Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus]]''. | File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1607: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] publishes his landmark study ''[[Crimes against astronomical constants|Crimina Astronomicae in Constantibus]]''. | ||
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||1814: The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||1814: The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||
||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. | ||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Pic. | ||
||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. | ||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. | ||
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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.