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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1184 BC: Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
-File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: ''Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria'' ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
+File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: ''Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria'' ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
 ||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat.  Powder of sympathy. Pic.