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||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. Pic. | ||1796: Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. Pic. | ||
||1804 | ||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. | ||
||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company | ||1814: Charles Beyer born ... engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company | ||
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||2006: Robert Bruce Merrifield dies ... was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic. | ||2006: Robert Bruce Merrifield dies ... was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic. | ||
||2007: Stephen E. Straus dies ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic. | |||
||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||2015: Stanton J. Peale dies ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.