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||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.
||1823: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch born ... mathematician, born in Weimar, working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic.


||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith.
||1835: William Herapath (1796–1868) was an English analytical chemist and political reformer. Herapath was expert witness for the prosecution, and made a reputation by his analysis...On 13 April 1835, at the trial of a woman named Burdock for poisoning by arsenic her lodger, Mrs. Clara Ann Smith. No DOB/DOD.  No pic.


||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search.
||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search.
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||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist. Pic.
||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist. Pic.


||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist.
||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist. Pic.


||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic.
||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic.
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||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.


||1871: Alexander Forbes Irvine Forbes born ... astronomer.
||1871: Alexander Forbes Irvine born ... amateur astronomer. Pic.


||1873: The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
||1873: The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.

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