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||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. | ||1803: The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. | ||
File:Stained Glass Nathaniel Hawthorne.jpg|1804: Author Nathaniel Hawthorne born. | |||
||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||1817: In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. | ||
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1804: Author Nathaniel Hawthorne born.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist dies. She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering the elements polonium and radium.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
