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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