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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.