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File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] writes a letter to [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]], suggesting the need for an almanac of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Leonardo da Vinci]] writes a letter to [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]], suggesting the need for an almanac of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1729: Francesco Bianchini dies ... astronomer and philosopher. | ||1729: Francesco Bianchini dies ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic (interesting). | ||
||1759: Pietro Paoli born ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1759: Pietro Paoli born ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
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File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore telegraph machine]] in Paris. | File:Signaling by Napoleonic semaphore line.jpg|link=Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore telegraph machine]] in Paris. | ||
||1825: Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. | ||1825: Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. Pic (statue). | ||
||1829: Karl Gottfried Hagen dies ... chemist. | ||1829: Karl Gottfried Hagen dies ... chemist. | ||
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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.