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Events
1006 – Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.
1993 – The World Wide Web was born at CERN.
Births
1723 – Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist
1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician
1829 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist
1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist
1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician
Deaths
1696 – Robert Plot, British naturalist
1865 – Robert Fitzroy, English admiral, meteorologist, and captain of HMS Beagle (above)