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1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
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.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Ursa Nano reveals a previously unknown shade of blue, "probably as a result of latest cryptographic numina."

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 ||1819: The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
-||1838: Karl Reye born ... mathematician. He contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry, introducing the concept of configurations. The Reye configuration of 12 points, 12 planes, and 16 lines is named after him. Pic.
+||1838: Theodore Reye born ... mathematician. He contributed to geometry, particularly projective geometry and synthetic geometry, introducing the concept of configurations. The Reye configuration of 12 points, 12 planes, and 16 lines is named after him. Pic.
 File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1840: [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] receives the patent for the [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph]].