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1621 – Birth of Thomas Willis, English physician
1851 – Death of John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter
1860 – Death of János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
1880 – Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded.
1903 – Birth of John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1926 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.
1936 – Birth of Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1967 – Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1972 – Death of Richard Courant, German-American mathematician
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