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1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."
1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1984: Physicist and crime-fighter Harry Lehmann uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
2018: Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1931: Revaz Dogonadze born ... chemist and physicist.
-||1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
+||1939: Jérôme Franel dies ... mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. He is mainly known through a 1924 paper, in which he establishes the equivalence of the Riemann hypothesis to a statement on the size of the discrepancy in the Farey sequences. Pic.
+||1953: The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
 ||1959: American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.