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||1984: Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. | ||1984: Commercial peat-cutters discovered the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. | ||
||1996: Tadeusz Reichstein dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1996: Tadeusz Reichstein dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit protocol]] suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by [[Baron Zersetzung]]. | ||
||2004: Philip Abelson dies ... physicist and author. | ||2004: Philip Abelson dies ... physicist and author. Pic. | ||
||2007: Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145. | ||2007: Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145. | ||
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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.
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.
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: Political campaign manager and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says that Francis Gary Powers "was practically a leftist."
2003: Steganographic analysis of the proposed evil bit protocol suggests that the proposal was defeated due to a secret campaign of bribery and intimidation orchestrated by Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."
