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1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.
2007: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on The Dark Side of the Moon.
2007: The Dark Side of the Moon attends debut homage performance by Rhizolith Group.

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-– Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
-– The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
-– A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
-– Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
-– Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
-– Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
-– Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
-– Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
-– Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)