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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.

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 ||Markus Eduard Fierz (d. 20 June 2006) was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work.
+||Floris Takens (d. June 20, 2010) was a Dutch mathematician known for contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamical systems. Together with David Ruelle, he predicted that fluid turbulence could develop through a strange attractor, a term they coined, as opposed to the then-prevailing theory of accretion of modes. The prediction was later confirmed by experiment. Pic.
 File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|2010: Unlicensed [[Extract of Radium]] factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of [[transdimensional corporations]].
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