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||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic. | ||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic. | ||
File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies. Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics". | ||File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies. Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics". | ||
||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic. | ||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic. | ||
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1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".