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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, author, and crime-fighter Irving Adler reveals high-level government cover-up of crimes against mathematical constants.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.

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 ||1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
+File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|2008: Mathematician, author, and crime-fighter [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] reveals high-level government cover-up of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] dies.  His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.