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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1947: Mathematician and crimefighter Haskell Curry publishes new theory of combinatory logic which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
1999: Signed first edition of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab sells for one and a half million dollars.
2017: Quaternion multiplication table sells for two million dollars.

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 File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
+||Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton(d. 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic.
 ||1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.