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||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic. | ||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic. | ||
||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. | ||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+h.+balsley | ||
||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.