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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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 ||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.
+||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. Pic.
 ||1869: Karl Theodor Vahlen born ... mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS.
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 ||1972: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik dies ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
-||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic.
+||1974: Vannevar Bush dies ... engineer and academic. Pic.
 ||1975: Miron Nicolescu dies ... mathematician.