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||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. | ||1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. | ||
||André-Jacques Garnerin (d. 18 August, 1823) was a French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. | |||
||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. | ||1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium. | ||
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1634: Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France. He was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Mathematician Pál Turán born. He will work primarily in number theory, but also contribute to analysis and graph theory.
1910: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocols which will be useful in predicting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann born. She will be one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.