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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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 ||1963: Raphaël Salem dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
-||1966: Georges Lemaître dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer.
+||1966: Georges Lemaître dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. Pic.
 ||1972: Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
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 ||1990: Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
-||2002: Erwin Chargaff dies ... biochemist and academic.
+||2002: Erwin Chargaff dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic.
 ||2005: Jack Kilby dies ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ... took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Pic.