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|File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''. | |File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''. | ||
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] | File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms. | ||
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.