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1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.
1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes Fighting defeats gang of math criminals in close-quarters combat.
1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
1894: Donnybrook breaks out, Extract of Radium abuse suspected.
1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.
2016: Killer Poke denies involvement in San Francisco Muni hack.

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 ||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.
+||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic.
 File:Bauernrauferei beim Kartenspiel Adriaen Brouwer.jpg|link=Donnybrook (nonfiction)|1894: [[Donnybrook (nonfiction)|Donnybrook]] breaks out, [[Extract of Radium]] abuse suspected.