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||1889: Calvin Bridges born ... geneticist and academic.
||1889: Calvin Bridges born ... geneticist and academic.
||1891: Georges-Eugène Haussmann dies ... engineer, urban planner, and politician. Pic.


||1895: Laurens Hammond born ... engineer and inventor. His inventions include, most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord. Pic.
||1895: Laurens Hammond born ... engineer and inventor. His inventions include, most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord. Pic.


||1906: Albert Hofmann born ... chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD.
||1906: Albert Hofmann born ... chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD. Pic.


||1917: The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
||1917: The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.

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