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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

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 File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1907: Nuclear physicist [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
+||Willard Van Orman Quine (b. June 25, 1908) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." Pic.
 ||1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.