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1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
1958: Project SCORE satellite equipped with Gnomon algorithm control system.
1973: John Brunner accuses Killer Poke of infecting "Hello World" program with Extract of Radium.
1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1987: New class of Fantasy Voronoi diagrams uses Gnomon algorithm to compute record-breaking profits.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Pin Man illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the Carnevale Tenebre program."

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 ||2014 – Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
-File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
+|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
+File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2016: Steganographic analysis of [[Pin Man]] illustration reveals "several hundred gigabytes of encrypted data related to the [[Carnevale Tenebre]] program."
 ||2017 – Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist (b. 1930)
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