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1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1963: Red-hot plutonium stolen from factory by organized gang of math criminals.

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 File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
 File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1823: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] on building an [[Orrery (nonfiction)|orrery]] which models [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|the heat death of the universe]].
 File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born.  He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
+||1886 – French chemist Henri Moissan (pictured) reported he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: Red-hot [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]] stolen from factory by organized gang of [[math criminals]].