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File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematical physicist [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|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.
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematical physicist [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|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.


||1910: Marion Post Wolcott born ... photographer ... Great Depression
||1910: Marion Post Wolcott born ... photographer ... Great Depression,


||1911: Brooks Stevens born ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile.
||1911: Brooks Stevens born ... engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile.
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||1915: The destruction of German Zeppelin LZ37 by Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Warneford. Pic (very stirring!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Aerial_Exploit_of_Lieut_Warneford.jpg
||1915: The destruction of German Zeppelin LZ37 by Sub-Lieutenant Reginald Warneford. Pic (very stirring!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Aerial_Exploit_of_Lieut_Warneford.jpg


||1924: Donald Watts Davies born ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network.
||1924: Donald Watts Davies born ... computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he developed the concept of packet switching in computer networking, and implemented it in the NPL network. Pic.


||1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
||1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.

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