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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. Ricci translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese, as well as the Confucian classics into Latin, for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Spiral Rings 2 reveals "eight hundred kilobytes, give or take" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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 ||1916: Karl Schwarzschild dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic.
-File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
+File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1918:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] born. Feynmann will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
 ||1920: James Colosimo dies ... mob boss.