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||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. | ||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1782: The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||1782: The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||
||1794: Ivan Simonov born ... astronomer and a geodesist. | ||1794: Ivan Simonov born ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||
||1800: Abraham Kästner dies ... mathematician, academic, and epigrammatist. Pic. | ||1800: Abraham Kästner dies ... mathematician, academic, and epigrammatist. Pic. | ||
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||1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. | ||1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. | ||
||1958: Kurt Alder dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Otto Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction. Pic. | |||
||1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow. | ||1963: Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called "red telephone" link between Washington and Moscow. | ||
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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."