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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
2017: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for two hundred thousand dollars.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

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 ||1954 – The German submarine U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
-File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)Mars]].
+File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
 File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]].
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