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||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. | ||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. | ||
||1997 – The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. | ||1997 – The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. | ||
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1763: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. He will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. He argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".