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1743: Occultist and explorer Alessandro Cagliostro born. He will become a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he will pursue psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying.
1881: Engineer and radio pioneer Henry Joseph Round born. Round will be the first to report the observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode.
1896: Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1922: Game theory experts predict that Lloyd Shapley will be born "within two years at the most."
1923: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley born. He will define game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2014: Pharmacologist and chemist Alexander Shulgin dies. He discovered, synthesized, and personal bioassayed over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
2019: Signed first edition of Blue Foliage purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a consortium of Gnomon algorithm theorists based in New Minneapolis, Canada."

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 ||1844: Gustaf Gabriel Hällström dies ... was a Finnish scientist. He was active in several fields, contributing to the establishment of an astronomical observatory in Turku as well as initiating the earliest systematic meteorological observations in Finland. Pic.
-||1881: Captain Henry Joseph Round born ... engineer, one of the early pioneers of radio, and personal assistant to Guglielmo Marconi. He was the first to report observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode. Pic.
+File:Henry Joseph Round.jpg|link=H. J. Round (nonfiction)|1881: Engineer and radio pioneer [[H. J. Round (nonfiction)|Henry Joseph Round]] born. Round will be the first to report the observation of electroluminescence from a solid state diode.
 ||1895: Tibor Radó born ... mathematician. Pic.