Template:Selected anniversaries/December 19
1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
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1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
1964: Saccharomyces cerevisiae spontaneously generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Numbered cake algorithm used to forecast 1966 Palomares B-52 crash with 99.5% certainty.
1965: Flock of Carnivorous dirigibles gathers after recovery of Palomares bomb.
2009: John Hoyland's stolen masterpiece Lebanon recovered using Tony Hoare's quicksort routine.
