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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann shares research data with Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski.
2016: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association invites Jan Kochanowski to demonstrate his recent work in scrying engine technology.
1924 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016)
1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)
1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)
1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.