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||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota. | ||
||1926: Edwin Abbott Abbott dies ... schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Pic. | |||
||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. | ||1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston. |
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to communicate with Aleister Crowley.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1995: Steganographic analysis of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals three terabytes of encrypted data.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.