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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1850: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Wilhelm Borchardt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use arithmetic-geometric mean theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2016: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1997: Robert Wertheimer Frucht dies ... mathematician; his research specialty was graph theory and the symmetries of graphs. He is known for Frucht's theorem, the result that every group can be realized as the group of symmetries of an undirected graph, and for the Frucht graph, one of the two smallest cubic graphs without any nontrivial symmetries. Pic = Frucht's graph.
+||1990: J. C. R. Licklider dies ... computer scientist and psychologist. He has been called "computing's Johnny Appleseed", for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age. Pic.
 ||2000: The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.