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||1922: Gene Amdahl born ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer. | ||1922: Gene Amdahl born ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer. | ||
||1922: Salvatore Giuliano born ... Sicilian bandit, who rose to prominence in the disorder which followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Last of the "People's Bandits", and the first to be covered in real time by mass media. | |||
||1925: Gerhard Hessenberg dies ... mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1899 under the guidance of Hermann Schwarz and Lazarus Fuchs. His name is usually associated with projective geometry, where he is known for proving that Desargues' theorem is a consequence of Pappus's hexagon theorem, and differential geometry where he is known for introducing the concept of a connection. | ||1925: Gerhard Hessenberg dies ... mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1899 under the guidance of Hermann Schwarz and Lazarus Fuchs. His name is usually associated with projective geometry, where he is known for proving that Desargues' theorem is a consequence of Pappus's hexagon theorem, and differential geometry where he is known for introducing the concept of a connection. | ||
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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.
1885: The Geissler tube is declared Electrical Wonder of the Day by the Governor of New Minneapolis, Canada.
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, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung allegedly 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.
crimes against the structure of nucleons".
2016: Signed first edition of Yellow Spiral recovered undamaged by APTO detectives, nine months after it was stolen. APTO will successfully prosecute Forbidden Ratio for the crime, but fail to find proof of Baron Zersetzung's involvement or knowledge.