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File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator. | File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1887: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator. | ||
||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. | ||1899: Ernst-Robert Grawitz born ... physician and an SS functionary (Reichsarzt, "arzt" meaning "physician") during the Nazi era. Pic. | ||
||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist. | ||1897: John G. Bennett born ... mathematician and technologist. Pic. | ||
||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics. | ||1910: C. C. Beck born ... illustrator ... comics. | ||
||1916: Francis Crick born ... biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1916: Francis Crick born ... biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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||1979: Reinhard Gehlen dies ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||1979: Reinhard Gehlen dies ... German general who was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East (FHO) military-intelligence unit, during World War II (1942–45); spymaster of the anti–Communist Gehlen Organization for the United States (1946–56); and the first president (1956–68) of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany, during the Cold War. | ||
||1997: Karen Wetterhahn dies ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. | ||1997: Karen Wetterhahn dies ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic. | ||
||1998: Maria Reiche born ... mathematician and archaeologist. | ||1998: Maria Reiche born ... mathematician and archaeologist. Pic. | ||
||2000: Jeff MacNelly dies ... cartoonist ... Shoe. | ||2000: Jeff MacNelly dies ... cartoonist ... Shoe. | ||
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||2014: Alexander Imich dies ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+imich | ||2014: Alexander Imich dies ... chemist, parapsychologist, and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=alexander+imich | ||
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1625: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini born. He will discover four satellites of the planet Saturn and note the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division will be named after him.
1789: James Madison introduces nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives, inluencing later Bill of Rights amendments.
1809: Thomas Paine dies. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1887: Inventor Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', his punched card calculator.
1955: Engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee born. He will invent the World Wide Web.