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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.

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 ||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
-File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|[[Bertrand Russell|1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
+File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1901: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
 File:Julius Petersen.jpg|link=Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|Julius Petersen]] dies.  His famous paper ''Die Theorie der regulären graphs'' is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.