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1825: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to compute new family of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page builds new type of scrying engine.
1835: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey secretly prints first edition of The Adulteration of Bergamot.
1864: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole dies. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1865: Mathematician Jacques Hadamard born. He will make major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
1932: US Navy raises flock of Carnivorous dirigibles.
1955: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
2016: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||2010: The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
+||2004: Gravity Probe B (GP-B) decommissioned ... a satellite-based mission which launched on 20 April 2004 on a Delta II rocket. The spaceflight phase lasted until 2005; its aim was to measure spacetime curvature near Earth, and thereby the stress–energy tensor (which is related to the distribution and the motion of matter in space) in and near Earth. This provided a test of general relativity, gravitomagnetism and related models. Pic.
 ||2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)