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1834 - Birth of
Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)
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1871 - Birth of
Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
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1878 - Death of
François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
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1893 - Death of
Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
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1894 -
W. K. Dickson receives a
patent for
motion picture film
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1925 - Birth of
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist (d. 1995)
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1927 - First transatlantic
telephone call – New York City to London
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1941 - Birth of
John E. Walker, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1954 -
Georgetown–IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a
machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of
IBM
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1998 - Death of
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)