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||1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested. | ||1966 – Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested. | ||
File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|2016: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms." | File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-[[Ultravore]]" is on the rise. | ||
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|2016: New class of [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] "reduce to well-known [[Crime (nonfiction)|crime]] algorithms." | |||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
2016: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.