Template:Selected anniversaries/December 19
1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
1960: Tony Hoare invents quicksort routine which reduces the effects of crimes against mathematical constants.
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.
