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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.
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.
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.
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.
1964: Physicist and crime-fighter Nikolay Basov uses quantum electronics modulator to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

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 ||1661 – Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, merchant and diplomat (d. 1730)
-||1792 – Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
+||Rev John Thomas Romney Robinson (b. 23 April 1792), usually referred to as Thomas Romney Robinson, was an astronomer and physicist. He was the longtime director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory, one of the chief astronomical observatories in the UK of its time. Robinson will invent the 4-cup anemometer. Pic.
 ||1856 – Granville Woods, American inventor and engineer (d. 1910)