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||1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944) | ||1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944) | ||
| | File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] born. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer. | ||
||1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847) | ||1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847) | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He invented 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.
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.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.