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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2019: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1942: Stephen James Rallis born ... mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands L-functions. Pic.
+||1953: Maria Petrou born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Maria+Petrou
 ||1964: Nandor Fodor dies ... psychologist and parapsychologist.
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 ||1995: Shawn Nelson steals an M60 tank from the California Army National Guard Armory in San Diego and proceeds to go on a rampage.
-||2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III dies ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
 File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies.  He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.