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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1924: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian foils villains, recovers stolen Pharaonic treasure and returns it to Egypt, winning acclaim both national and global.

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 ||1912 – The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
+||Donald J. Hughes (b. April 2, 1915) was an American nuclear physicist, chiefly notable as one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II. No Pic.
 ||1917 – World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.