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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

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 File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] dies.  He co-wrote ''What is Mathematics?''.
-File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] counteract effects of [[Extract of Radium]].
+File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1972: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to counteract the effects of crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].
 ||1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.