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||1880 – John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790) | ||1880 – John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790) | ||
||Joseph Alfred Serret (d. March 2, 1885) was a French mathematician. He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic. | |||
||1886 – Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher (d. 1942) | ||1886 – Kurt Grelling, German logician and philosopher (d. 1942) | ||
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1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci writes a letter to Johannes Engel, suggesting the need for an almanac of crimes against astronomical constants.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington builds new type of scrying engine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
2017: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian captures supervillain Fugitive Rubies.