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1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to make improved astronomical observations.
1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.
Einstein's theory of general relativity.

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 ||John Walker (b. 29 May 1781) invented the friction match.
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 ||1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer and selenographer (d. 1874)
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 ||1829 – Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1778)
+||Harry Bateman FRS (b. 1882) was an English mathematician.
+File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1917: Politician [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]], 35th President of the United States, born.
 File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1919: [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Einstein's theory of general relativity.