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1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1907: Spike in crimes against mathematical constants blamed on upcoming Tunguska event.
1905: Albert Einstein sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.

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-||1650: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician.
+||1650: Niccolò Cabeo born ... Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. Pic.
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-||1791: Félix Savart born ... physicist and psychologist.
+||1791: Félix Savart born ... physicist and psychologist. Pic (bust).
 ||1827: Jacques-Louis Soret born ... chemist who in 1878, along with Marc Delafontaine, first observed holmium spectroscopically. Soret was also responsible for correctly working out the chemical composition of ozone as being three oxygen atoms bound together.