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File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s. | ||
||Robert Simpson Woodward (b. July 21, 1849) was an American physicist and mathematician. | |||
||1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. | ||1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. | ||
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1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1910: Physicist John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
2016: Synthetic organism Ultravore begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the Hanford Site.