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1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.
1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
1963: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter John Crank uses the Crank–Nicolson method to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

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 ||1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
+||Olin Jeuck Eggen (d. October 2, 1998) was an American astronomer. He became known as one of the best observational astronomers of his time. He will be the first to introduce the now-accepted notion of moving groups of stars, and co-author of a seminal 1962 paper which suggests for the first time that the Milky Way Galaxy had collapsed out of a gas cloud. Pic.
 ||Tosio Kato (d. October 2, 1999) was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis.