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1519: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller publishes new edition of Universalis Cosmographia which accuses Egon Rhodomunde of committing crimes against cartography.
1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of interstellar crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
+File:Martin Waldseemüller.jpg|link=Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|1519: Mapmaker [[Martin Waldseemüller (nonfiction)|Martin Waldseemüller]] publishes new edition of ''Universalis Cosmographia'' which accuses [[Egon Rhodomunde]] of committing [[crimes against cartography]].
 File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].