Template:Selected anniversaries/March 5
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1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1499: Polymath Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent accidental solar eclipse.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1662.
1639: Mathematician John Pell uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1640: Didacus automaton attends lecture by John Pell.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann reverse-engineers Didacus automaton, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson dies. He implemented the first email system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.