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1590: Philologist, mathematician, astronomer, and poet Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin dies, killed by a fall in attempting to let himself down from the window of his cell. His prolific and versatile genius produced a great variety of works, but his reckless life and libelous letters led to imprisonment.
1759: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies. He introduced a successful resolution to the St. Petersburg paradox.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1849: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming born. He will invent the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1855: London cholera map stolen by supervillain Abomynous; crime analysts forecast wave of cholera-related bank robberies.
1893: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.
1904: John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1918: Writer Madeleine L'Engle born. She will write the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
1924: Composer Giacomo Puccini dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
1955: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars wins award for Best Reality TV Show.

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 File:Giacomo Puccini.jpg|link=Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|1924: Composer [[Giacomo Puccini (nonfiction)|Giacomo Puccini]] dies. He is remembered as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
-|File:Vereinigte_Ostindische_Compagnie_bond.jpg|link=transdimensional prison|1933: Bond, issued by Dutch East India Company in 1623, converted to [[transdimensional prison]].
+||Ernest William Barnes FRS (d. 29 November 1953) was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a liberal theologian and bishop.
 File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1955: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho suffers a partial meltdown during a coolant flow test.