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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter Stanisław Leśniewski publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.
2018: Pinwheel Diagram sells for $500 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or tomorrow.
+||Florence Nightingale (b. 12 May 1820) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic.
 File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective [[Jan Kochanowski]] uses [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].