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||1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine. | ||1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine. | ||
||Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (d. 21 January 1804), German physician, was born in Großvargula near Erfurt. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Ernst Anton Nicolai and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception. | |||
||1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1900) | ||1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1900) | ||
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1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born.
1780: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters produces new generation of organic golems.
1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by running away.
1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.
1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. He did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
1951: Numbered cake algorithm used to manufacture new type of organic golems.
1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.