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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.

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 File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1593: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
-||1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (b. 1598) Giovanni Battista Riccioli[1] (Italian pronunciation: [d͡ʒoˈvanni batˈtista riˈt͡ʃɔlli]; 17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
+File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1671: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
 File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].