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||1927 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (d. 2005) | ||1927 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (d. 2005) | ||
||Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (d. May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist. | |||
||1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994) | ||1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994) | ||
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||1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". | ||1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". | ||
File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' linked to outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: Publication of ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' linked to outbreak of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. | ||1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. | ||
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1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).