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||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic.


File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies.  Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".
||File:No image available.gif|link=Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist [[Robert Pohl (nonfiction)|Robert Pohl]] dies.  Pohl has been called the "father of solid state physics".


||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
||1983: Kurt Tank dies ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
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||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic.


File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang.
File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Signed first edition of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."


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  • 1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

    1646: Mathematician and philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia born. She will be one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

  • 1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

    1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.

  • 1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

    1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  • 1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

    1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.

  • 2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

    2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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