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1604: Johannes Kepler discovers new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1805: Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine visit Lyon and viewed Joseph Marie Jacquard's new programmable loom.
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).
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of quantum timeline photographs.

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 ||1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
-||Hans Neurath (October 29, 1909 – April 2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry
+||Edwin Thomas Layton (d. April 12, 1984) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II.
+||Hans Neurath (d. April 2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry
 ||2013 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (b. 1928)