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||1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||
||Abraham Gotthelf Kästner ( | ||Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov (b.1794) was a Russian astronomer and a geodesist. | ||
||Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (d. 20 June 1800) was a German mathematician, academic, and epigrammatist. | |||
||1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. | ||1819 – The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. | ||
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1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and invented submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Unlicensed Extract of Radium factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations.