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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.

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 ||1867: Frank Lloyd Wright born ... architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater.
+||1879: John Howard Redfield born ... mathematician, best known for discovery of what is now called Pólya enumeration theorem (PET) in 1927; "in 1940 he came to Haverford College and gave us some lectures on 'Electronic Digital Computers' " Pic: book cover: http://www.worldcat.org/title/recollections-of-john-howard-redfield/oclc/4524551
 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.