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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2017: Phaeton 9 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Volume one of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer published.

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 ||1975: Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno dies ... applied mathematician and scientist in engineering mechanics.  Pic.
+||1975: Microbiologist Alice Catherine Evans dies.  she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She later demonstrated that ''Bacillus abortus'' caused the disease Brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans. Pic.
 File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches.  It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.