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||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956) | ||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956) | ||
||Ivan Emanuel Wallin (b. 22 January 1883) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory.[2] Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man" | |||
||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. | ||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. | ||
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File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. | File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. | ||
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to stop theft of the [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]]. | File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to stop theft of the [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]]. |
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1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to stop theft of the Hamangia figurines.
1968: Tunguska Event Preservation Society accepts Lex Luthor's application for membership.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.