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File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups, contributing to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.
File:Armand Borel.jpg|link=Armand Borel (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician and academic [[Armand Borel (nonfiction)|Armand Borel]] born. He will work in algebraic topology, and in the theory of Lie groups, contributing to the creation of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.


||1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
||1924: University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing". Pic.


File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1927: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1927: [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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File:Ernst Zermelo 1900s.jpg|link=Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|1953: Logician and mathematician [[Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]] dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.
File:Ernst Zermelo 1900s.jpg|link=Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|1953: Logician and mathematician [[Ernst Zermelo (nonfiction)|Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo]] dies. His work had major implications for the foundations of mathematics; he is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory, and for his proof of the well-ordering theorem.


||1964: James Franck dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1964: James Franck dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1965: Geoffrey de Havilland dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito.
||1965: Geoffrey de Havilland dies ... pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito.

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