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1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. He invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
1891: Charles Sanders Peirce publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1906: An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
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.
2011: Mathematician Curt Meyer dies. He made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

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 ||Gian-Carlo Rota (d. April 18, 1999) was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.
-||Curt Meyer (d. 18 April 2011) was a German mathematician. He made notable contributions to number theory. Among his most important results is an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem. Pic.
+File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|2011: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] dies. He made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
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