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1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer 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.
1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.
1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
1912: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Green Sprouts reveals "over three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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 File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
-||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era.
+||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. Pic.
-||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist.
+||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist. Pic.
 ||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics.