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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1931: crossword puzzle used in scrying engine for the first time.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.

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 File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] dies.
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 File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born.
 File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1898: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by playing dead.