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||1838: Eli Lilly born ... soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company. | ||1838: Eli Lilly born ... soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company. | ||
||1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin born ... general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company. | ||1838: Ferdinand von Zeppelin born ... general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company. Pic. | ||
||1842: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos born ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic. | ||1842: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos born ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.