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File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1565: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
File:Cornelis de Houtman.jpg|link=Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|1565: Explorer [[Cornelis de Houtman (nonfiction)|Cornelis de Houtman]] born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.


||1618 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1663)
File:Francesco Maria Grimaldi.jpg|link=Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|1618: Mathematician and physicist [[Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|Francesco Maria Grimaldi]] born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.  


||1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist (d. 1848)
||1788 – Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist (d. 1848)

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  • 1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

    1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.

  • 1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

    1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

  • 1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

    1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.

  • 1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

    1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."

  • 1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

    1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

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