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1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1724: Mechanical soldier Clock Head helps fugitive and alleged thief Jack Sheppard escape thief takers.
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1917: Mathematician Derek Taunt born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
1939: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises George P. Metesky to begin a bombing campaign in New York City.
1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1940: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde secretly invests in George Metesky's bombing campaign.
1974: Physicist and crime-fighter Walter Heinrich Heitler publishes new of theory of valence bonding with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Yellow Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least three hundred and fifty kilobytes, perhaps four hundred" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions related to the color yellow.