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||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||1943: Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | ||
||1944: Dénes Kőnig | ||1944: Dénes Kőnig commits suicide ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1965: The London Times reported that an archaeologist had located what he believed to be the tomb of Archimedes. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | ||
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1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.