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||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. | ||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. | ||
||Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (b. 22 January 1890) was a Soviet physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy. | |||
||1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831) | ||1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831) | ||
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1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to stop theft of the Hamangia figurines.
1968: Tunguska Event Preservation Society accepts Lex Luthor's application for membership.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.