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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor lectures on applications of Set theory to anti-demon algorithms.

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-||1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1868)
+File:August Ferdinand Möbius.jpg|link=August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|1790: Mathematician and astronomer [[August Ferdinand Möbius (nonfiction)|August Ferdinand Möbius]] born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
-||August Ferdinand Möbius (/ˈmɜːrbiəs/ or US: /ˈmoʊbiəs/; German: [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs]; 17 November 1790 – 26 September 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.
 ||1749 – Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (d. 1841)