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April 28

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  1. 32 CEGraeco-Roman · born

    The future emperor Otho was born on this day at Ferentium in Etruria, as noted by his biographer Suetonius.

  2. 2004 CEMesopotamian · died

    Jeremy Black, the Assyriologist who founded the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, died in 2004.

  3. 1906 CEScience · born

    Kurt Gödel, the logician whose incompleteness theorems set fundamental limits on formal mathematical systems, was born in Brünn, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1906.

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