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||1240: Ibn Arabi dies ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||1240: Ibn Arabi dies ... philosopher. His cosmological teachings became the dominant worldview in many parts of the Islamic world. Pic. | ||
||1643: Jean Chardin born ... jeweler and explorer. | ||1643: Jean Chardin born ... jeweler and explorer. Pic. | ||
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|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. | File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|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. | ||
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File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|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. | File:Jack Sheppard - Thornhill.jpg|link=Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|1724: Thief [[Jack Sheppard (nonfiction)|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. | ||
||1835: Eugenio Beltrami born ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. | ||1835: Eugenio Beltrami born ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. Pic. | ||
||1841: Jules Violle born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle | ||1841: Jules Violle born ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle | ||
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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]]. | 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]]. | ||
|| | ||1945: Theodor Vahlen dies ... mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS. Pic. | ||
||Stanisław Jaśkowski (b. November 16, 1965) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. | ||Stanisław Jaśkowski (b. November 16, 1965) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. | ||
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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.
1885: The Geissler tube is declared Electrical Wonder of the Day by the Governor of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1917: Mathematician Derek Taunt born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
1939: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung allegedly George P. Metesky to begin a bombing campaign in New York City.
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.
1974: Physicist and crime-fighter Walter Heinrich Heitler publishes new of theory of valence bonding with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against chemistry.
crimes against the structure of nucleons".
2016: Signed first edition of Yellow Spiral recovered undamaged by APTO detectives, nine months after it was stolen. APTO will successfully prosecute Forbidden Ratio for the crime, but fail to find proof of Baron Zersetzung's involvement or knowledge.