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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1639: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] observes the transit of Venus. | ||
File:Ismaël Boulliau.jpg|link=Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist [[Ismaël Bullialdus (nonfiction)|Ismaël Bullialdus]] publishes ''Astronomia Gnomaica'', his monumental study of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | |||
||1840 – John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920) | ||1840 – John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (d. 1920) | ||
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1632: Philosopher, scholar, and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza born. He will lay the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe.
1639: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ismaël Bullialdus publishes Astronomia Gnomaica, his monumental study of crimes against astronomical constants.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1962: First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.
1963: In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armored car to take him to the nearby county jail.