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File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] born either today or yesterday. | ||
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File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. | File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1937: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] born. | ||
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1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765) | |||
1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823) | |||
1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932) | |||
1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796) | |||
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. | |||
1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886) | |||
1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. | |||
1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921) | |||
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. | |||
2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (b. 1914) | |||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
Gilgamesh tablet grumpy about missing sections, demands high-energy literature therapy.
Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain gives benefit to raise money for the Gilgamesh tablet's restoration.
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born.
1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765)
1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 1823)
1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796)
1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)
1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1995 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)