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File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn|1894: [[John Venn]] invents new [[Venn diagram|Demon-hunting diagram]], leading to arrest of serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn|1894: [[John Venn]] invents new [[Venn diagram|Demon-hunting diagram]], leading to arrest of serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]]. | ||
File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. | File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1894: [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]], one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. | ||
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File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|1924: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] born. | File:Claire Kelly Schultz.jpg|link=Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|1924: Information scientist [[Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)|Claire Kelly Schultz]] born. | ||
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1925: Mathematician and social activist [[Alice Beta]] interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]. | |||
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1929: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing. | ||
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] lectures on applications of [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] to [[Venn diagram|anti-demon algorithms]]. | File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] lectures on applications of [[Set theory (nonfiction)|Set theory]] to [[Venn diagram|anti-demon algorithms]]. | ||
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||1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. | ||1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. | ||
||1973 | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] privately advises [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon]] to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook." | ||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." | |||
File:Skip Digits, Conductor.jpg|link=Skip Digits, Conductor|1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "[[[[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Richard Nixon is not a crook]]." | |||
||1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1931: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor lectures on applications of Set theory to anti-demon algorithms.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "[[Richard Nixon is not a crook."