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1799: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla dies. His deep interest in history of mathematics became apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1956: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "math-crimes complex."
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1965: Antikythera Team invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Accidental release of nuclear weapons precipitates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1976: Cube delivers lecture on geometry.
1995: Physicist Nathan Rosen dies. He developed the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
2016: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Prison unable to contain supervillain Abomynous.

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 |File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1889: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to advance [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] research.
-||1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)
+||1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954) Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
 ||1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.