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1981 - The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men.
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1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist
1878 - George Whipple, American scientist, and Nobel laureate
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Deaths
1839 - William Smith, English geologist
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate
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