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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.

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 ||1811: Andrew Meikle dies ... engineer, designed the threshing machine.
-||1764: Ruan Yuan born ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
+||1849: Ruan Yuan dies ... the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He was known for his work ''Biographies of Astronomers and Mathematicians''. Pic.
 File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1852: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.