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1984 Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician, proved Zipf's law

1906 U.S. inventor Lee de Forest patents "Audion," a 3-diode amplification valve which proved a pioneering development in radio and broadcasting

1870 Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum

1868 Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity

1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever

1819 Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist, pendulum proved Earth rotates


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