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)
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