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This year in history
In the year 1806

	June 27th	British forces captured the city of Buenos Aires. The British were unable to hold the city though and were thereafter repulsed.
	August 23th	French physicist, Charles Augustin de Coulomb, died at the age of 69. He was one of the leading scientists in the field of electricity and electromagnetism. The unit of electrical charge, the coulomb, is named after him.
	October 7th	Inventor Ralph Wedgewood, was awarded a patent for carbon paper in London, England.

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