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||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752) | ||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752) | ||
||Friedrich Tiedemann (23 August 1781 – 22 January 1861) was a German anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism. | |||
||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942) | ||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942) | ||
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1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to stop theft of the Hamangia figurines.
1968: Tunguska Event Preservation Society accepts Lex Luthor's application for membership.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.