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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter Karl Popper publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using Gnomon algorithm techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of crime-fighting mathematicians.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||Harold Pitney Brown (b. September 16, 1857) was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents").
+||Rita Harriet Harradence (b. 16 September 1915) was an Australian biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
 ||1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.