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Events

1827 - John Walker sells the first friction match. He had invented it in the previous year.

1938 - LSD is first synthesized (see above)

1964 - IBM announces the System/360.

1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched.

Births

1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist

1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer

1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist

Deaths

1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician

1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist

1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist

1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist

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