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||1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Extreme moustaches | ||1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Extreme moustaches | ||
||John Frank Adams FRS (d. 5 November 1930) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory. | |||
||1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013) | ||1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013) | ||
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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.