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1596: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.

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 File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. He will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
 File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
-File:Brainiac Action Comics 242.png|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|1959: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] challenges [[Superman (nonfiction)|Superman]] "go fight the real menace: [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]].
+: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies.  He was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
-File:Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus crime team symbol.jpg|link=Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|1963: [[Turkish delight (nonfiction)|Turkish delight]] found at scene of [[crime against mathematical constants]], crime team of [[Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus (crime team)|Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus]] suspected.
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