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||Jacques Cassini (b. 18 February 1677) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.
||Jacques Cassini (b. 18 February 1677) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.


||1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (Italian: [alesˈsandro ˈvɔlta]; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power,[2][3][4] who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.  
||1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (b. 18 February 1745) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.  


||1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
||1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.

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