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||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. No DOB. Pic. | ||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1739: At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. Pic (imagined). | ||1739: At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. Pic (imagined). TO_DO | ||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | ||
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|File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | |File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | ||
||1974: | File:Hans_Bernd_Gisevius.jpg|link=Hans Bernd Gisevius (nonfiction)|1974: German diplomat and intelligence officer [[Hans Bernd Gisevius (nonfiction)|Hans Bernd Gisevius]] dies. Gisevius was a covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany. | ||
||1987: Edward Lansdale dies ... American general and CIA agent. Pic. | ||1987: Edward Lansdale dies ... American general and CIA agent. Pic. | ||
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1580: Physician, occultist, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Johann Weyer publicly accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly distributing clandestiphrine and other transdimensional drugs.
1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter Claude Shannon publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: German diplomat and intelligence officer Hans Bernd Gisevius dies. Gisevius was a covert opponent of the Nazi regime, and a radical communist; he served as a liaison in Zürich between Allen Dulles, station chief for the American OSS, and the German Resistance forces in Germany.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Crimson Blossom 2 reveals previously unknown color which is "midway between red and violet."