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1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Kunihiko Kodaira uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."

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 |File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|1974: New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered, causing wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
-File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constant]].
+File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.