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||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.
||1761: Bernard Forest de Bélidor dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1836: Arthur Williams Wright born ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays.  Pic.
File:Arthur_Williams_Wright.jpg|link=Arthur Williams Wright (nonfiction)|1836: Physicist [[Arthur Williams Wright (nonfiction)|Arthur Williams Wright]] born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.


||1848: Viktor Meyer born ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.
||1848: Viktor Meyer born ... chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and for discovering thiophene, a heterocyclic compound. Pic.
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||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic.
||1894: Hermann von Helmholtz dies ... physician and physicist. Pic.
||1897: Jimmy Rodgers born. Pic.


||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search.
||1904: Karl Hessenberg born ... mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him. Pic search.
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||1944: World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
||1944: World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
File:Edward Teller 1958.jpg|link=Edward Teller (nonfiction)|1959: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], theoretical physicist [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.


||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
||1960: In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
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||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search.
||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. Pic search.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|pardoning of Richard Nixon]].


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."


||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search.
||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search.
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||2010: George C. Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. Pic.
||2010: George C. Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. Pic.


File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiments unexpectedly generates a counter-chiral clone of programmer and fabulist [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].
||2016: OSIRIS-REx launched — NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission. Pic.


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  • 1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

    1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".

  • 1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

    1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.

  • 1836: Physicist Arthur Williams Wright born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.

    1836: Physicist Arthur Williams Wright born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.

  • 1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

    1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.

  • 2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

    2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.

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