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||1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. | ||1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California. | ||
||Lars Valerian Ahlfors (b. 18 April 1907) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | |||
||1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011) | ||1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian Jewish-American physicist and academic (d. 2011) | ||
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1324: Alleged supernatural healer Malady saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor.
1761: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi invents new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter John Brunner.