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Events (350 years ago today): 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ?(x).
Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Independence of Angola.
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress (died 2018)[32]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player
Deaths (1150 years ago today): 875 – Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia
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