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1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patents new type of phonoautograph, which records crimes against mathematical constants as photographic images.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

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 |File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1746: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] discharges a battery of Leyden jars through a human chain, exposing a [[math criminal]] was posing as a priest.
+||Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix (b. 24 April 1776) was a French optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.
 File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] patents new type of phonoautograph, which records [[crimes against mathematical constants]] as photographic images.