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||1942 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) | ||1942 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1957: [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use with [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]]. | |File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1957: [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use with [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]]. | ||
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] incorporates [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|virtual Nebra sky disk]] as backup navigation system. | |File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1958: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] incorporates [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|virtual Nebra sky disk]] as backup navigation system. | ||
||1961 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (b. 1899) | ||1961 – Elda Anderson, American physicist and health researcher (b. 1899) | ||
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File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | File:Bay of Pigs.jpg|link=Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|1961: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion (nonfiction)|Bay of Pigs Invasion]]: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Colonel Zersetzung]] takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade [[Clandestiphrine]]. | ||
File:Robert F. Kennedy assassination.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | File:Robert F. Kennedy assassination.jpg|link=Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of [[Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|assassinating Robert F. Kennedy]]. | ||
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1627: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat writes a marginal note about a "Last Last Theorem" which will "surely solve all cases of crimes against mathematical constants, both past and future."
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. In 1962 he will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his aquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade Clandestiphrine.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.