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||1886: Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. Pic. | ||1886: Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. Pic. | ||
||1891: Helena Blavatsky dies ... mystic and author. | ||1891: Helena Blavatsky dies ... mystic and author. Pic. | ||
||1898: Ernst Adolph Guillemin born ... electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network analysis and synthesis. Pic: http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1125 | ||1898: Ernst Adolph Guillemin born ... electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network analysis and synthesis. Pic: http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1125 | ||
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1788: Physician, geologist, and botanist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli dies. He has been called the "first anational European" and the "Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire".
1794: Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.
1872: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels defeats alleged criminal mastermind Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill dies. He was one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1960: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead dies. During the Second World War, he worked with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 stolen from the Walker Art Center in New Minneapolis, Canada by the Forbidden Ratio gang.