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1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1941: New York mobster and hit man Abe Reles dies.
1942: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta discovers evidence Colonel Zersetzung is secretly diverting government-issued Extract of Radium for his personal use.
1944: Mathematician George David Birkhoff dies. He was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation.
1946: Military officer and alleged crime bos Colonel Zersetzung uses Extract of Radium to secretly synthesize illegal Clandestiphrine.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren is convicted on falsification and fraud charges.
1989: AESOP predicts that Tim Berners-Lee will propose the World Wide Web one year from today.
1990: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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 ||1969 – Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
+||William Frederick Friedman (d. November 12, 1969) was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s.
 ||1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident.