Up for commemoration this year are anniversaries of the death of Benjamin Franklin and the births of H. J. Muller, August Möbius and (perhaps) Dom Perignon. There is, too, the advent of the electric chair to 'celebrate'.
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Bynum, W., Heilbron, J. Eighteen ninety and all that. Nature 343, 11–14 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/343011a0
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