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1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1958: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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+||1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614)
 File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1834: Weaver and merchant [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] dies. He invented the [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]], an early type of programmable machine.
+||1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
 ||1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
 File:Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1958: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] reprogrammed to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+||1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
+||1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
+||2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
+||2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912)
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