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1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
1964: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram computes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2014: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association votes against transdimensional corporation status.

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-– Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
-– A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
-– Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)
-– Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)
-– Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)