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||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, at Bristol | ||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, at Bristol | ||
||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. | ||1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing born ... astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Matthew+Weld+Downing | ||
||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist. | ||1851: Robert Abbe born ... surgeon and radiologist. | ||
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||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist. | ||1851: William Quan Judge born ... occultist and theosophist. | ||
||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. | ||1853: Leopold Gmelin dies ... chemist and academic ... worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic. | ||
||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. | ||1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. | ||
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1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. He will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. His work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.