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1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1853: Mark Twains interviews Wallace War-Heels. Twain will later call it "the interview of a lifetime."
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1972: The Mariner 9 spacecraft is switched off. During its mission, Mariner mapped 70% of the surface of Mars, and studied temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.

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 File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
+||Ernest William Hobson (b. 27 October 1856) was an English mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. G. H. Hardy wrote, "Although he lived to be 76, he was active almost up to his death; his last book (and perhaps in some ways his best) was published when he was 74. He was a singular exception to the general rule that good mathematicians do their best work when they are young."  Pic.
 ||Louis François Clément Breguet (d. 27 October 1883), was a French physicist and watchmaker, noted for his work in the early days of telegraphy.