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File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1774: British scientist [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1774: British scientist [[Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|Joseph Priestley]] discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
||1779: Lorenz Oken born ... German naturalist who offered early evolutionary ideas and stimulated comparative anatomy. He theorized (incorrectly) that the skull was a modified vertebra, but formed some fundamental concepts which stimulated further thought from later scientists. In Die Zeugung, he discussed “the infusoria”—elementary units of living organisms—into which all flesh can be broken down. Higher animals, he proposed, consisted of constituent animalcules. Entities, whether plants or animals, became organisms by the fusion of these primal animals. Those elements lose all individuality and create a higher unity. Lorenz Oken wrote many books on natural history for students and adults, founded a scholarly journal (contributing most of its articles), and organized scientific congresses. Pic.


||1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)
||1795 – Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1735)

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  • 1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

    1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

  • 1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1818: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre uses astronomical equations derived from analytical formulas which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

    1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.

  • 1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

    1869: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.

  • 1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

    1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.

  • 1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

    1977: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."

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