July 7

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  1752: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard born. He will invent the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.

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  1945: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.

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  1946: Aviator Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.