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||1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. | ||1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. | ||
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] | File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. | ||
||1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964) | ||1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964) |
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1780: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. born. He will invent a variant of the (now-discredited) Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1879: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell dies. His discoveries helped usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
2016: Electric S'mores opens for business in Brasília.