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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
1971: Talk show host Peter Giblets is arrested for smoking cannabis while filming an episode of The Peter Giblets Hour before a live studio audience.
2017: The monster depicted in Do Not Tease Monster is voted Monster of the Year in a survey of 3200 monsters.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Electrical Storm unexpectedly reveals "five hundred to seven hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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 ||1977: Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
+||1995: Bettye Washington Greene dies ... chemist. Greene researched colloid and latex chemistry, including interactions between latex and paper. Pic (science!).
 ||2004: Herman Heine Goldstine dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. Pic.