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1409: The University of Leipzig opens. Famous future alumni will include Leibniz, Goethe, Ranke, Nietzsche, Wagner, Angela Merkel, Raila Odinga, and Tycho Brahe.
1831: Mathematician Paul David Gustav du Bois-Reymond born. He will work on the theory of functions and in mathematical physics.
1939: Physicist and crime-fighter Enrico Fermi publishes evidence that nuclear weapons will be vulnerable to crimes against chemistry.
1942: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1966: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer dies. He made contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he founded the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1987: Physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies. He played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's nuclear bomb project, associated closely in nuclear weapons testing to study the effects of nuclear explosion from 1943 until 1963.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.

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 ||1908 – Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
+||Hugo von Seeliger (b. 1924), also known as Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger, was a German astronomer, often considered the most important astronomer of his day.
 |File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] predicts that ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' will be released in 1973.