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||Simon Stevin enrolls at Leiden University under the name ''Simon Stevinus Brugensis''. Stevin is listed in the University's registers until 1590; apparently he never graduated; nonetheless, he will make contributions to a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. | ||Simon Stevin enrolls at Leiden University under the name ''Simon Stevinus Brugensis''. Stevin is listed in the University's registers until 1590; apparently he never graduated; nonetheless, he will make contributions to a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. | ||
File:François Ravaillac.jpg||1610: Regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] drinks [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time. | File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] drinks [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time. | ||
||1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758) | ||1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758) | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.