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File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. | File:Diamond Sutra.jpg|link=Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|868: A copy of the ''[[Diamond Sutra (nonfiction)|Diamond Sutra]]'' is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book. | ||
||1610 | File:Matteo_Ricci.jpg|link=Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|1610: Priest and mathematician [[Matteo Ricci (nonfiction)|Matteo Ricci]] dies. He translating ''Euclid's Elements'' into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time. | ||
||1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602) | ||1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602) | ||
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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.
1610: Priest and mathematician Matteo Ricci dies. He translating Euclid's Elements into Chinese as well as the Confucian classics into Latin for the first time.
1845: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Jacques Philippe Marie Binet publishes new theory of crimes against mathematical constants using fundamental principles of matrix algebra.
1858: Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.
1903: Public outrage in response to the short film Electrocuting an Elephant triggers a worldwide outbreak of Scrimshaw abuse.
1918: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman born. He will share the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics.
2018: Havelock With Portable Gnomon Algorithm Amplifier is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. Mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock says he is "grateful for the kind words."