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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||2004: Gennadi Strekalov dies ... engineer and astronaut.
-||2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
+||2004: The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
 File:Vera Rubin.jpg|link=Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|2016: Astronomer and academic [[Vera Rubin (nonfiction)|Vera Rubin]] dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
-|File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|2017: [[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] wishes you a Merry Christmas.
+File:Swirl.jpg|link=Swirl (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Swirl (nonfiction)|Swirl]]'' is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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