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||1120 – Gerard Thom (The Blessed Gerard), founder of the Knights Hospitaller (b. c. 1040) | |||
||1596 – Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (d. 1684) | |||
||1650 – Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark. | ||1650 – Third English Civil War: In the Battle of Dunbar, English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell defeat an army loyal to King Charles II of England and led by David Leslie, Lord Newark. | ||
File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | ||
||1704 – Joseph de Jussieu, French explorer, geographer, and mathematician, (d. 1779) | |||
||1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss biologist and zoologist (d. 1784) Father of Biology | ||1710 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss biologist and zoologist (d. 1784) Father of Biology | ||
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. | File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1814: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. | ||
||1869 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930 | |||
||1905 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | |||
||1908 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1988) | |||
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
1929: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.