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||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.
||1519 – Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second-in-command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines.


||1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (d. 1675)
File:Gilles Personne de Roberval.jpg|link=Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|1602: Mathematician and academic [[Gilles de Roberval (nonfiction)|Gilles de Roberval]] born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Copernican heliocentric system]] and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.


||1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.
||1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

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  • 1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

    1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.

  • 1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

    1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.

  • 1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1957: X-ray crystallographer and crime-fighter Rosalind Franklin publishes new classGnomon algorithm functions based on the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

    1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

  • 1998: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells high school graduating class that "repairing a time machine is less difficult than you might think, if you have the tools and the knowledge how use them."

    1998: Engineer and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells high school graduating class that "repairing a time machine is less difficult than you might think, if you have the tools and the knowledge how use them."

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