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||1942: World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
||1942: World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.


||1947: Cassius Jackson Keyser dies ... mathematician.
||1947: Cassius Jackson Keyser dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.
||1951: Gilbert Ames Bliss dies ... mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Pic.

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  • 1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

    1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".

  • 1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

    1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

  • 1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

    1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

  • 1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

    1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

  • 1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

    1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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