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||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. | ||1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. | ||
||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). | ||1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr. dies ... Freon, CFC ... An instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny ... Doctor Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist. He was a key figure in a team of chemists, led by Charles F. Kettering, that developed the tetraethyllead (TEL) additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Pic. | ||
||1957: The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. | ||1957: The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. |
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.
2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 stolen from the Tate in London. The press will initially blame The Eel, but APTO detectives will prove that the criminal mathematical function Forbidden ratio stole the picture and framed The Eel.