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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Signed first edition of Red Spiral sells for thirty thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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-||1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
+||1184 BC: Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
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 ||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat.  Powder of sympathy. Pic.
-||1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch born ... astronomer.
+||1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch born ... astronomer. He became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley (better known as Halley's Comet) on Christmas Day, 1758.[1] The periodic nature of this comet had been deduced by its namesake Edmond Halley in 1705, but Halley had died before seeing if his prediction would come true. Pic.
 ||1842: Carl von Linde born ... engineer and academic.