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||1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (d. 1864) | ||1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (d. 1864) | ||
||Jeremiah Dixon FRS (b. 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. | |||
||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752) | ||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752) | ||
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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.
1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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.