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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

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-|File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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