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||1871 – 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California. | ||1871 – 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants were tortured and lynched in the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles, California. | ||
||Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883 – 30 June 1960) was a French politician and mathematician. | |||
||1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in t a barrel. | ||1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in t a barrel. | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.