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532: The Nika riots fail in Constantinople. Nearly half the city is burned or otherwise destroyed, and tens of thousands of people are dead.
1873: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin dies. In 1826 created the earliest known choropleth map.
1877: Events depicted in Gambling Den Fight may have occured on this day, says physicist and crime-fighter Antoine César Becquerel.
1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1923: First use of crossword puzzles powered by Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||Alfred Arthur Robb or Alfred A. Robb FRS (18 January 1873 in Belfast) was a Northern Irish physicist.
+File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1877: Events depicted in ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' may have occured on this day, says physicist and crime-fighter [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]].
 File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.