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Events

1675 - King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Births

1733 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor

1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (above)

Deaths

1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist

1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician

1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician

1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician

1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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