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File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | ||
||1950: Salvatore Giuliano dies ... Sicilian bandit, who rose to prominence in the disorder which followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Last of the "People's Bandits", and the first to be covered in real time by mass media. | |||
||1966: George de Hevesy dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1966: George de Hevesy dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. |
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1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
1939: "The Safe-Cracker was not a math crime," says art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.
2017: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral purchased for an undisclosed sum by "an eminent Gnomon algorithm theorist from New Minneapolis, Canada.
2018: Signed first edition of Pin Man #1 stolen from the Louvre in a daring daylight robbery allegedly masterminded by Baron Zersetzung.