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18 February 1838 – Ernst Mach 's birthday. 11 February 1847 – Thomas Edison 's birthday. 23 February 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss 's death. 22 February 1875 – Heinrich Hertz 's birthday. 28 February 1901 – Linus Pauling 's birthday.
April 1: April Fools' Day; Iranian Islamic Republic Day ( 1979 ) Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. 1871 – The Duke of Buckingham (pictured) opened the first section of the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
April 1: 1640 - Birth of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697) 1776 - Birth of Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) 1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine; 1865 - Birth of Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929) 1933 - Birth of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist ...
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September 26. Replica of the Golden Hind. 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family. 1580 – English explorer Francis Drake 's galleon the Golden Hind (replica pictured) sailed into Plymouth, completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 255 days remain until the end of the year.
A less scientific metric is the sheer volume of famous people born on this date. Celebrities born on September 9. Four-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (1980) and three-time Razzie winner Adam ...