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||1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001) | ||1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001) | ||
||1906 | File:San Francisco 1906 earthquake Post-and-Grant-Avenue.jpg|link=1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|1906: An [[1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California]]. | ||
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco. | File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco. | ||
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1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. He invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
1891: Charles Sanders Peirce publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
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.
