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||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS ''Indianapolis'', killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. It was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. | ||1945: World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS ''Indianapolis'', killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. It was the greatest single loss of life at sea, from a single ship, in the history of the US Navy. | ||
||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic | ||1948: John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic ... Stockholm Water Prize. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Briscoe+engineer | ||
||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||1971: Aral smallpox incident: outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom 3 died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident No pics online. | ||
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1832: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal dies.
1841: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy measures mean density of the Earth using Gnomon algorithm technique. This data will later be adapted for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1974: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.