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1883: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley born. He will conduct espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities will only come to light after his death.
1884: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for eighty thousand dollars.
1952: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing dies. He was influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1959: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.
1960: An explosion in a helium tank causes a fire in a liquid-fueled, nuclear-tipped BOMARC missile.
1961: Brainiac Explains magazine published detailed plans for simulating the BOMARC nuclear missile site explosion.

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 ||1911 – Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (d. 1995)
-||Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS[1] (b. 7 June 1924) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking,[2][3] and implemented it in the NPL network.
+||Boris Levitan (b. 7 June 1914) was a mathematician known in particular for his work on almost periodic functions, and Sturm–Liouville operators, especially, on inverse scattering.
+||Donald Watts Davies, CBE, FRS (b. 7 June 1924) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking,[2][3] and implemented it in the NPL network.
 ||1929 – The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.