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|File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|1324: Alleged supernatural healer [[Malady]] saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor. | |File:Malady.jpg|link=Malady|1324: Alleged supernatural healer [[Malady]] saves patient from the Black Death, accidentally infects doctor. | ||
||John Graunt (d. 18 April 1674) was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Pic. | |||
||1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660). No birth date. | ||1732 – Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660). No birth date. | ||
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1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. He invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
1860: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson uses embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space to locate and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1891: Charles Sanders Peirce publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
1946: Mathematician and academic Alice Beta writes a letter to Albert Einstein, warning Einstein that his theories are at risk from the so-called Forbidden Ratio and other criminal mathematical functions.
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, charges mathematician and detective Alice Beta.
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.
2017: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by professional art thieves.
