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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.

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 ||2007 – NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
-File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2017: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
+File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|2016: ''[[The Shovel]]'' depicts [[The Custodian]] in the act of reversing contract violations by [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]].
 File:Quaternion multiplication.jpg|link=Quaternion (nonfiction)|2017: [[Quaternion (nonfiction)|Quaternion multiplication table]] sells for two million dollars.
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