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File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. | File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]] places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. | ||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1940: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] secretly invests in [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky's bombing campaign]]. | |||
||1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. | ||1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. | ||
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1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1724: Mechanical soldier Clock Head helps fugitive and alleged thief Jack Sheppard escape thief takers.
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1940: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde secretly invests in George Metesky's bombing campaign.