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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1957: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1709 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1785)
-File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
+File:Jérôme Lalande.jpg|link=Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer [[Jérôme Lalande (nonfiction)|Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande]] born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
 ||1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825)