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||1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
||1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)


File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.


||1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
||1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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