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||1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board. | ||1933 – The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board. | ||
||Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (d. 28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He also discovered alkaptonuria, understanding its inheritance. Pic. | |||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize. |
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1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
1943: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.
2013: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
2014: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.