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File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] is front for [[clandestiphrine]] manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] is front for [[clandestiphrine]] manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter [[John Brunner]]. | ||
||Gian-Carlo Rota (d. April 18, 1999) was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher. | |||
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1324: Alleged supernatural healer Malady saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor.
1761: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi invents new type of scrying engine which detects crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter John Brunner.