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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."

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-||1557: Jacques Cartier dies ... navigator and explorer.
 ||1599: Cornelis de Houtman dies ... explorer and spy.
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 ||1834: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. Pic.
+||1865: John Appold dies ... engineer. He will invent (among other things) an improved centrifugal pump, and a brake employed in laying deep-sea telegraph cables (used in laying the first Transatlantic cable in 1858).
 ||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator.