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||1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial. | ||1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial. | ||
||Paul Karl Maria Harteck (d. 22 January 1985) was a German physical chemist. In 1945 under Operation Epsilon in "the big sweep" throughout Germany, Harteck was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces for suspicion of aiding the Nazis in their nuclear weapons program and he was incarcerated at Farm Hall, an English house fitted with covert electronic listening devices, for six months. Pic. | |||
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987: Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television. | File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987: Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television. | ||
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1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.
1910: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of George Metesky.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and prevent crimes against poetry.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals formula for Extract of Radium.