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||1894: Alexander P. de Seversky born .. pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Pic (cool!). | ||1894: Alexander P. de Seversky born .. pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Pic (cool!). | ||
||1896: Robert S. Mulliken born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1896: Robert S. Mulliken born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1899: American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. | ||1899: American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. Pic. | ||
||1900: Frederick Emmons Terman born ... professor and academic administrator. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley. Pic. | ||1900: Frederick Emmons Terman born ... professor and academic administrator. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley. Pic. | ||
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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.
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.
