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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
1999: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

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 ||1984: Edwin Thomas Layton dies ... Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II. Pic.
+||1997: George Wald dies ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.
 File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1999: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].