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||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+walker+inventor | ||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+walker+inventor | ||
||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. | ||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic. | ||
||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. | ||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. | ||
||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1830: Louise Michel dies ... teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy" and "Red Virgin". Pic. | ||1830: Louise Michel dies ... teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation she embraced anarchism. When returning to France she emerged as important French anarchist and went on speaking tours across Europe. The journalist Brian Doherty has called her the "French grande dame of anarchy" and "Red Virgin". Pic. | ||
Revision as of 15:58, 28 March 2019
1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.