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||1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. | ||1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. | ||
||Leo Moser (d. February 9, 1970, Edmonton) was an Austrian-Canadian mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. | |||
||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. | ||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing. | ||
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1555: Christian Egenolff dies. He was the first important printer and publisher operating from Frankfurt-am-Main.
1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini found guilty of atheism and blasphemy, put to death. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão designs new type of airship powered by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft.
1907: Mathematician and academic Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter born. He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
1913: A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."