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1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page correlates transdimensional corporations with crimes against mathematical constants.
1843: Rudolf Clausius publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on thermodynamics.
1958: A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1958: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

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 File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1843: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on thermodynamics.
-||1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916)
+||1840 – Hiram Maxim, American engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born inventor who moved from the United States to the United Kingdom at the age of 41. He remained an American citizen until he became a naturalised British subject in 1899.[1][2] He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun
 ||1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.