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||1516: Hanno the Elephant dies ... the pet white elephant given by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici) at his coronation. Hanno, an Asian elephant, came to Rome in 1514 with the Portuguese ambassador Tristão da Cunha and quickly became the Pope's favorite animal. Hanno died two years later from complications of a treatment for constipation with gold-enriched laxative.


File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg|link=Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.


||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge.
||1724: John Smeaton born ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS  - Pic.


||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer.
||1745: Caspar Wessel born ... mathematician and cartographer.

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