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||1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||
||1861: Rikitarō Fujisawa born | File:Fujisawa Rikitaro.jpg|link=Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician [[Rikitarō Fujisawa (nonfiction)|Rikitarō Fujisawa]] born. During the Meiji era he will be instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan. | ||
||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1865: Arthur Harden born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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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.
1667: Astronomer, lens-maker, and APTO field engineer Geminiano Montanari uses the variable brightness of Algol in the constellation of Perseus to detect and prevent crimes against astronomy.
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.
1861: Mathematician Rikitarō Fujisawa born. During the Meiji era he will be instrumental in reforming mathematics education in Japan and establishing the ideas of European mathematics in Japan.
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.
1939: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Walter Houser Brattain discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the photo-effect at the free surface of a semiconductor to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Golden Spiral reveals cartoon about cats that excrete gold.
