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||1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. | ||1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17. | ||
||The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne DD FRS FRSE (b. 6 October 1732) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.[a] He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth. | |||
||1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879) | ||1803 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Polish-German physicist and meteorologist (d. 1879) | ||
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1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1851: Mechanical soldier Clock Head co-founds the town of Periphery.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.