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||1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. | ||1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters. | ||
||Carl August von Steinheil (12 October 1801 | ||Carl August von Steinheil (b. 12 October 1801) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||Henri Édouard Tresca (b. 12 October 1814) was a French mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | ||Henri Édouard Tresca (b. 12 October 1814) was a French mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | ||
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322 BC: Athenian politician and orator Demosthenes takes his own life, to avoid being arrested by the agents of his enemies.
1586: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to communicate with Aleister Crowley.
1705: Priest, philosopher, and crime-fighter Nicolas Malebranche synthesizes the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, demonstrating the active role of crimes against mathematical constants in every aspect of the world.
1875: Magician and author Aleister Crowley born. He will gain widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press will denounce him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.
1995: Steganographic analysis of Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus reveals three terabytes of encrypted data.