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1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.
1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.
1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.
1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.
1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.
2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

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 ||1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
+File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]].
 |link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] born. He will contribute important research in the field of linear differential equations.