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||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1830: U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. Pic.
||1831: Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire) dies ... was French Catholic priest, Constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent abolitionist of human slavery and supporter of universal suffrage. He was a founding member of the Bureau des longitudes, the Institut de France, and the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Pic.


||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.
||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic.

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  • 1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

    1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.

  • 1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

    1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

  • 1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."

    1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."

  • 2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

    2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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