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File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''. | File:Otto_von_Guericke.jpg|link=Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|1663: [[Otto von Guericke (nonfiction)|Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio''. | ||
File:Pieter van Musschenbroek.jpg|link=Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher [[Pieter van Musschenbroek (nonfiction)|Pieter van Musschenbroek]] born. He will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar. | |||
||1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874) | ||1800 – James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874) | ||
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1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek born. He will invent the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1878: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1879: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein born. He will develop the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1932: George Eastman dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1965: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: Physicist and computer scientist Howard H. Aiken dies. He designed the Harvard Mark I computer.
1974: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.