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||1773: Alban Butler dies ... priest and hagiographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alban+Butler
||1773: Alban Butler dies ... priest and hagiographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alban+Butler


||1793: Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
||1793: Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights. Pic.


File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] born. He will discover Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1801: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] born. He will discover Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
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||1845: Élie Metchnikoff born ... zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Metchnikoff is credited with the discovery of phagocytes (macrophages) in 1882. This discovery turned out to be the major defence mechanism in innate immunity. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". Pic.
||1845: Élie Metchnikoff born ... zoologist best known for his pioneering research in immunology. Metchnikoff is credited with the discovery of phagocytes (macrophages) in 1882. This discovery turned out to be the major defence mechanism in innate immunity. He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity". Pic.


||1857: Williamina Fleming born ... astronomer and academic.
||1857: Williamina Fleming born ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1858: Robert Hare ... chemist. Pic.
||1858: Robert Hare ... chemist. Pic.

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