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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.

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 ||1885: Joseph Alfred Serret dies ... mathematician.  He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic.
-||1886: Kurt Grelling born ... logician and philosopher.
+||1886: Kurt Grelling born ... logician and philosopher. Pic.
 ||1888: Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno born ... applied mathematician and scientist in engineering mechanics.  Pic.
+||1894: Alexander Oparin born ... biochemist and academic. ... notable for his theories about the origin of life, and for his book The Origin of Life. He also showed that many food-production processes were based on biocatalysis, and developed the foundations for industrial biochemistry in the USSR. Pic.
 ||1901: Grete Hermann born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.