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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.

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 ||1919 – Gustav Naan, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1994)
+||Dr John Paul Wild (17 May 1923) was a British-born Australian scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic.
 ||1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (d. 1981)