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Events

1943 - Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.

Births

1495 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician

1660 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician

1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist

1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician

Deaths

1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer

1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist

1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist

1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer

1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist

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