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File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1932: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] dies. He founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | ||
||Tommy Bonnesen (d. 14 March 1935) was a Danish mathematician, known for Bonnesen's inequality. | |||
||1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. | ||1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. | ||
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1663: Otto von Guericke completes his book Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio.
1760: Mathematician and crime-fighter Daniel Bernoulli publishes new theory of probability and statistics which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
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.