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||1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven. | ||1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven. | ||
||Johann Friedrich Gmelin (b. 1748) was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist. | |||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" [[Wallace War-Heels]] defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat. | ||
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1555: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé dies. He was imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1872: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.
1873: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds dies. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1963: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
2000: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
2017: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for two million dollars in charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.