Template:Selected anniversaries/June 26

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  1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.

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  1875: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery representing the heat death of the universe.

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  1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

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  1963: Plutonium stolen from factory, Ultravore denies responsibility.

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  2017: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association invites Egg Tooth to speak at conference on monsters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Messier