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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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 |File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1929: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
+||Max Ernst August Bodenstein (d. September 3, 1942) was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic.
 File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for two hundred thousand dollars.