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||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
||1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
||Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (d. 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers.


||1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
||1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)

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  • 1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

    1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.

  • 1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

    1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

    1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.

  • 1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

    1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.

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