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||1910 – Léon Delagrange, French pilot and sculptor (b. 1873) | ||1910 – Léon Delagrange, French pilot and sculptor (b. 1873) | ||
||Sixto Ríos García (b. January 4, 1913), was a Spanish mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. | |||
||1920 – William Colby, American intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1996) | ||1920 – William Colby, American intelligence officer, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1996) | ||
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1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1903: Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The event is documented in the film Electrocuting an Elephant.
1932: Mathematician and academic Shoshichi Kobayashi born. He will work on Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures, and Lie algebras.
1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2003: George Plimpton published first in prize-winning series of articles on capacitor plague.