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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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 ||1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and engineer (d. 1990)
+||Karl Theodor Reye (died 2 July 1919) was a German mathematician. He contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry, introducing the concept of configurations. The Reye configuration of 12 points, 12 planes, and 16 lines is named after him. Pic.
 ||Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (b. 2 July 1925) was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers.  Pic.