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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: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Spiral 2 reveals anonymous elegy for computer scientist Peter Naur.

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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.
-File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' among works seized by [[APTO]] agents under subpoena against the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
+|File:Spiral 2.jpg|link=Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral 2]]'' among works seized by [[APTO]] agents under subpoena against the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
 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.