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||1484 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician and scholar (d. 1558)
||Johannes (van Waveren) Hudde (b. 1628) was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company.
||1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
||1661 – Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, merchant and diplomat (d. 1730)
||1792 – Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
||1856 – Granville Woods, American inventor and engineer (d. 1910)
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.


||1867 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1869: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
 
||Edward Hugh Hebern (b. April 23, 1869) was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption.
 
||1895 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
 
||1899 – Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982)
 
||1901 – E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist (d. 1988)
 
||1915 – Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer, academic, and businessman (d. 2000)


File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1939: Mathematician and inventor [[Alice Beta]] warns President Roosevelt that the [[Manhattan Project]] will have disastrous side-effects, including a wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.


File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941:  Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941:  Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
||1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
||1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
||1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses quantum electronics modulator to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1965 – George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)


File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.


||1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928)
File:World War X.jpg|link=World War X|'''''[[World War X]]''''' is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.  
 
||2013 – Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)


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  • 1858: Physicist and academic Max Planck born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.

    1858: Physicist and academic Max Planck born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

    1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

  • 1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

    1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

  • 1941: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.

    1941: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.

  • 1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

    1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

  • World War X is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.

    World War X is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.

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