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1791: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse born. He will co-invent the Morse code.
1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
2018: Signed first edition of Creature 4 sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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 ||1788 – Charles Robert Cockerell, English architect, archaeologist, and writer (d. 1863)
-||1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (d. 1872)
+File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1791: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] born.  He will co-invent the Morse code.
 ||Andrew Talcott (b. 1797) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee.
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 ||2015 – Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924)
+File:Creature_4.jpg|link=Creature 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Creature 4 (nonfiction)|Creature 4]]'' sells for $500,000 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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