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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.

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 ||1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
+||Zerah Colburn (b. September 1, 1804) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.
 ||Johann Friedrich August Göttling (b. 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist.
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 ||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955)
-||Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (d. 1 September [O.S. 19 August] 1908) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
+||Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (d. 1 September 1908) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
 ||1919 – Hilda Hänchen, German physicist and academic (d. 2013)