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||1479 – Celio Calcagnini, Italian astronomer (d. 1541) | |||
||1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented Forceps (d. 1761) | |||
||1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa. | |||
||1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist (d. 1794) | |||
||1826 – Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1866) | |||
||1857 – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer (d. 1935) | |||
||1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States." | |||
||1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality. | |||
||1936 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (d. 2014) | |||
||1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. | |||
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