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||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. | ||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. | ||
||Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch (b. 13 April 1823) was a German mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic. | |||
||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, at Bristol | ||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, at Bristol | ||
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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.