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||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto. | ||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto. | ||
File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' sells for an undisclosed amount to "a celebrity mathematician and long-time resident of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]" in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms. | File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms. | ||
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1641: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
1953: Physicist and crime-fighter Erwin Schrödinger uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1954: Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson born.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 sells for an undisclosed amount to "a celebrity mathematician and long-time resident of New Minneapolis, Canada" in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.