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1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter Kunihiko Kodaira uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1968: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.
1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the House Judiciary Committee members murdered, as a lesson to the others."

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 ||1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
-||Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer.
+||Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (d. 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.
+||Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (d. 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer.
 File:Kodaira Kunihiko.jpg|link=Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Kunihiko Kodaira (nonfiction)|Kunihiko Kodaira]] uses algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].