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Events

1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another

Births

1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician

1519 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist

1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer

1850 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1857 - Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician

1906 - Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician

1918 - Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1943 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1944 - Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist

1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate