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1845 – Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1981 – The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men.
Births
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist
1878 – George Whipple, American scientist, and Nobel laureate
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist
1908 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist
Deaths
1839 – William Smith, English geologist
1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate