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File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|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.
File:Annie Easley.jpg|link=Annie Easley (nonfiction)|1933: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer [[Annie Easley (nonfiction)|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.


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|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]].
|File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|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]].


||1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
||1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.

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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.

    1858: Physicist and academic Max Planck born. He will make many contributions to theoretical physics, earning fame as the originator of quantum theory.

  • 1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

    1869: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern born. He will be a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 1967: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.

    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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