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File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]]. | |||
|File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]]. | |||
||1550 – Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer | |||
||1634 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. | |||
||1685 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731) | |||
||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. | |||
||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. | |||
||1886 – Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795) | |||
||1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers. | |||
||1911 – Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963) | |||
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