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||1484 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician and scholar (d. 1558)
||Johannes (van Waveren) Hudde (b. 1628) was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company.
||1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
||1661 – Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, merchant and diplomat (d. 1730)
||1792 – Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
||1856 – Granville Woods, American inventor and engineer (d. 1910)
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.
File:Max Planck 1878.gif|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1858: Physicist and academic [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.


||1867 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1869: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
 
||Edward Hugh Hebern (b. April 23, 1869) was an early inventor of rotor machines, devices for encryption.
 
||1895 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
 
||1899 – Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982)
 
||1901 – E. B. Ford, English biologist and geneticist (d. 1988)
 
||1902: Boyd Crumrine Patterson born ... was a mathematician and the 9th president of Washington & Jefferson College. During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million. Pic.
 
||1915 – Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer, academic, and businessman (d. 2000)
 
||Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (b. 23 April 1919), codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky was responsible for informing the United Kingdom about the Soviet emplacement of missiles in Cuba, thus providing both the UK and the United States with the precise knowledge necessary to address rapidly developing military tensions with Soviet Russia. Pic.
 
||Henry Ernest Dudeney (d. 23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of mathematical puzzles. Pic.


File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|Annie Easley]] born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1939: Mathematician and inventor [[Alice Beta]] warns President Roosevelt that the [[Manhattan Project]] will have disastrous side-effects, including a wave of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.


File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941:  Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
File:Ray Tomlinson.jpg|link=Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|1941:  Computer programmer and engineer [[Ray Tomlinson (nonfiction)|Ray Tomlinson]] born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.
||1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
||1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
||1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses quantum electronics modulator to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1965 – George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)


File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Soviet space program: [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.


||Robert Brainard Corey (d. April 23, 1971) was an American biochemist, mostly known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet with Linus Pauling.
File:World War X.jpg|link=World War X|'''''[[World War X]]''''' is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.  
 
||1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928)
 
||2013 – Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)


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  • 1858: Physicist and academic Max Planck born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.

    1858: Physicist and academic Max Planck born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

    1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

  • 1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

    1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley born. She will be a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.

  • 1941: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.

    1941: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson born. He will implement the first email system on the the ARPANET system, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.

  • 1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

    1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

  • World War X is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.

    World War X is a 2013 documentary film about the Biblical story of Moses (Brad Pitt), a United Nations locust researcher adopted by Pharaoh (Charlton Heston) who accidentally releases a religious zombie pandemic.

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