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||1968: Harold Gray dies ... cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie. Pic. | ||1968: Harold Gray dies ... cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie. Pic. | ||
||1970: Louise Freeland Jenkins dies ... astronomer and academic. Compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun; edited the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. Pic. | |||
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|1972: Public servant and alleged supernatural entity [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about how the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] will play out. | File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|1972: Public servant and alleged supernatural entity [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about how the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] will play out. | ||
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1469: Mathematician, astronomer, and gnomon-builder Paolo Toscanelli accuses the House of Malevecchio of secretly using the gnomon in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence to commit crimes against astronomical constants.
1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1963: Project West Ford launches, successfully deploying a ring of 480,000,000 copper needles in orbit, forming an artificial ionospheric radio communication system.
1972: Public servant and alleged supernatural entity The Custodian tells a funny story about how the Watergate scandal will play out.
1972: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Two Bugs Fighting unexpectedly releases self-replicating computer virus which spontaneously generates Extract of Radium.