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1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by shooting first.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to locate Havelock.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1973: Mathematician Robin Farquharson dies. He wrote an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.

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 File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
+||Sir William Snow Harris (1 April 1791 – 22 January 1867) was an English physician and electrical researcher,[1] nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris,[2] and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).
 ||1826 – Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine".