- 1742 Edmond Halley dies, forced friend Isaac Newton to publish his Calculus.
- 1806 American Matthew Maury born, 1st to map the ocean floor, father of the Trans-Atlantic cable.
- 1898 Lewis Carroll dies, wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- 1914 Henry Ford started the continuous motion assembly line, an 8x speed up.
- 1978 American Kurt Gödel dies, his Incompleteness Theorems ended a century of attempts to axiomatize mathematics.
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