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||1374: A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. | ||1374: A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. | ||
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric [[crimes against physical constants]]. | |||
||1616: Ferdinand Bol born ... painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt. Pic. | ||1616: Ferdinand Bol born ... painter, etcher and draftsman, student of Rembrandt. Pic. | ||
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||1969: Frank King dies ... cartoonist ''Gasoline Alley''. Pic. | ||1969: Frank King dies ... cartoonist ''Gasoline Alley''. Pic. | ||
||1969: Willy Ley dies ... historian and author. | ||1969: Willy Ley dies ... historian and author. Pic. | ||
||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh dies ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic. | ||
||1990: William Kneale dies ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.Pic search | ||1990: William Kneale dies ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha. Pic search. | ||
||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1996: Peter Thullen dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against physical constants.
1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in the detection and prevention of crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: The public test of the "Passarola", a primitive airship devised by priest and inventor Bartolomeu de Gusmão, fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. Veblen will publish a paper (1912) on the Four color conjecture.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as the "most entertaining illustration of our time."
2008: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel dies. Ringel was a pioneer of graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO engineers call it "a remarkable breakthrough."