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||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||2015: The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt. | ||
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in New Minneapolis, Canada]]" by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]]. | File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]" by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]]. | ||
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903: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi born. He will publish his Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
1823: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker born. His work will include number theory, algebra, and logic.
1929: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl uses fermions (now known as Weyl semimetals) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979: Astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin dies. Her doctoral thesis established that hydrogen is the overwhelming constituent of stars, and accordingly the most abundant element in the universe.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Flower stolen from the private home of "a celebrity mathematician in New Minneapolis, Canada" by agents of the House of Malevecchio.