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||1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717) | ||1648 – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717) | ||
||Samuel Molyneux FRS (d. 13 April 1728), son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. | |||
||1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (d. 1833) | ||1771 – Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (d. 1833) | ||
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||1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart. | ||1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867) Through the study of ablations on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart. | ||
||1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889) Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci ( | ||1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889) Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (b. 13 April 1808) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. | ||
||1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917) | ||1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917) | ||
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1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Discovers Time Travel reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which "forecast the emergence of Project MKUltra within a year."
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.