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File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | File:Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper.jpg|link=Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|1658: [[Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)|Oliver Cromwell]] dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. | ||
||1860: Martin Heinrich Rathke dies ... physiologist and pathologist who was one of the founders of modern embryology. He was the first to describe the embryonic precursors of gill slits and gill arches in the embryos of higher animals - mammals and birds - which have none when fully grown. Rathke compared the development of the air sacs in birds and the larynx in birds and mammals. In 1839, he traced the origin of the anterior pituitary gland from a depression in the roof of the mouth, which embryonic structure is now known as Rathke's pouch. Rathke also did pioneering work in marine zoology, as being first to describe lancet fish. Pic. | |||
||1704: Joseph de Jussieu born ... explorer, geographer, and mathematician. | ||1704: Joseph de Jussieu born ... explorer, geographer, and mathematician. | ||
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|File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1929: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines. | |File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1929: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrating his electronic television system, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines. | ||
|| | ||1942: Max Ernst August Bodenstein dies ... physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb. Pic. | ||
File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for two hundred thousand dollars. | File:Humpty Dumpty At Bat.jpg|link=Humpty Dumpty At Bat|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Humpty Dumpty At Bat]]'' sells for two hundred thousand dollars. | ||
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1658: Oliver Cromwell dies. He was a military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1814: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester born. He will make fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1916: Archaeologist and crime-fighter Sylvanus Morley uses archaeological expedition to Mexico during World War I as cover story for secret investigation into alleged Maya-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the press.
2017: Signed first edition of Humpty Dumpty At Bat sells for two hundred thousand dollars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 spacecraft landing at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
