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||1677: Jacques Cassini born ... astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.
||1677: Jacques Cassini born ... astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.


||1745: Alessandro Volta born ... physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane. Pic.
File:Alessandro Volta.jpg|link=Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|1745: Physicist and chemist [[Alessandro Volta (nonfiction)|Alessandro Volta]] born. Volta will conduct pioneering experiments in electricity and electrochemistry, discovering the electrical battery; he will also discover methane.


||1766: A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship ''Meermin'', leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators. Pic: similar ship.
||1766: A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship ''Meermin'', leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators. Pic: similar ship.

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