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||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703) | ||1643 – Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (d. 1703) | ||
| | File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] born. He will make contribution to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation. | ||
File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|Jack Sheppard]] hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. | ||
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1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contribution to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.