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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: After accidentally corrupting a Gnomon algorithm configuration file, The United States Army Signal Corps uses the Project Diana antenna to extract high-grade Clandestiphrine from the corruption stream. APTO field engineers will quickly disambiguate the corruption, but an undisclosed volume of Clandestiphrine remains under Army control.
1960: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes dies. Hughes was one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
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1984: United States Navy Admiral and intelligence officer Edwin Thomas Layton dies.
1999: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

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 ||1639: Martin Lister born ... physician and geologist. He was physician to Queen Anne from 1709 until his death. Lister was a prolific correspondent. More than 2,000 letters written by and to him survive in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and other repositories. Pic.
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 ||1981: The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
-||1984: Edwin Thomas Layton dies ... Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II. Pic.
+Edwin Thomas Layton|link=Edwin Thomas Layton (nonfiction)|1984: United States Navy Admiral and intelligence officer Edwin Thomas Layton dies.
 ||1997: George Wald dies ... neurobiologist and academic ... studied pigments in the retina. Share the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Haldan Keffer Hartline and Ragnar Granit. Pic.