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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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 ||1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss biologist and zoologist (d. 1784) Father of Biology
+||Matthew Boulton FRS (b. 3 September 1728) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills. Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment. Pic.
 File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.