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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.
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1910: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield born. He will work on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provides the burst of neutrons that kick-starts the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
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.
2017: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||2004: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob dies ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic.
-File:Superimposed Fraunhofer.jpg|link=Superimposed Fraunhofer|2008: Priceless block of four [[Superimposed Fraunhofer]] stamps stolen by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. It will be recovered undamaged the following year by [[APTO]] field agents.
 File:Pink City.jpg|link=Pink City (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Pink City (nonfiction)|Pink City]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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