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File:Bacteriophage Exterior.svg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1880: [[Transdimensional corporation]] spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1791: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] born.  He will co-invent the Morse code.
File:Siegel der Universitat Leipzig.png|link=Leipzig University (nonfiction)|1881: "[[Leipzig University (nonfiction)|Leipzig University]] should include me in seal," says [[Friedrich Nietzsche (nonfiction)|Friedrich Nietzsche]].
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1913 – Irving Adler, American mathematician, author, and academic (d. 2012)
File:Paul_Albert_Gordan.jpg|link=Paul Gordon (nonfiction)|1837: Mathematician [[Paul Gordon (nonfiction)|Paul Albert Gordan]] born. Gordon was known as "the king of invariant theory".


1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
File:Irving Adler age 75.jpg|link=Irving Adler (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic [[Irving Adler (nonfiction)|Irving Adler]] born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case ''Adler vs. Board of Education''.


1936 – Karl Pearson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1857)
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate]]-related crimes.


1938 – Edmund Husserl, Czech mathematician and philosopher (b. 1859)
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1952 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician (b. 1865)


1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
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