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||1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915) | ||1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915) | ||
1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. | ||1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. | ||
||1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948) | ||1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German physician and war criminal (d. 1948) | ||
||1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986) invented radiosurgery | ||1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon (d. 1986) invented radiosurgery | ||
||1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) telegraph | |||
||1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001) | ||1915 – Anne Burns, British aeronautical engineer and glider pilot (d. 2001) | ||
||1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times. | ||1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times. | ||
||1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 1971) | |||
||1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior. | ||1953 – Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior. | ||
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||1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. | ||1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. | ||
||2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy and defector (b. 1962) | |||
||2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing. | ||2015 – Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to space and then return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing. | ||
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1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.