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||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. | ||1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. | ||
||Marcel Riesz (b. 16 November 1886) was a Hungarian-born mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, and Clifford algebras. | |||
||1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). | ||1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). | ||
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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.
1939: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises 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.
974: Physicist and crime-fighter Walter Heinrich Heitler publishes new of theory of valence bonding with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.