1852 Sir William Ramsay – Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gasses. Helped by Lord Rayleigh, he found argon in 1894 and helium in 1903. He went on to isolate neon, krypton and xenon

Hmmmmm.

1887 In British Columbia, a Fraser River fisherman netted a 12 foot sturgeon weighing 822 pounds

I wonder if they threw it back into the river to live another day.