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1632: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei calls the House of Malevecchio "a dynasty built on crimes against physics."
1817: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1933: Engineer and inventor Justin Capră born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
1973: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to manufacture large quantity of military-grade clandestiphrine.
1987: Artist Andy Warhol dies. He was a leading figure in the Pop art movement.
1988: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright uses chaos theory principles to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1995: The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

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 File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1632: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]]'s ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.
+File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1633: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] calls the [[House of Malevecchio]] "a dynasty built on [[Crimes against physical constants|crimes against physics]]."
 ||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.