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AWARDS

ELECTRICITY

Benjamin Franklin 's kite experiment determined that lightning was an electrical phenomenon.

BIRTHS

May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840 )

July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard , French inventor (died 1834 )

September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre , French mathematician (died 1833 )

DEATHS

February 9 - Frederik Hasselquist , Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722 )

April 10 - William Cheselden , surgeon (born 1688 )