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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
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1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
November 3, 2018: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Vatican by agents of the House of Malevecchio.

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 ||2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld dies ... physicist. Pic.
-File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' unexpectedly reveals "more than a terabyte" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
+File:Ringmaster-img075-1.jpg|link=Ringmaster (nonfiction)|November 3, 2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Ringmaster (nonfiction)|Ringmaster]]'' stolen from the Vatican by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]].
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