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||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online. | ||1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. No pic online. | ||
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File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search. | ||1855: Hans Friedrich Geitel born ... physicist. Pic search. | ||
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||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | ||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | ||
File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | File:USS Indianapolis (CA-35) underway at sea 27 September 1939 (80-G-425615).jpg|link=USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35) (nonfiction)|USS ''Indianapolis'']] leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | ||
File:Trinity detonation.jpg|link=Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1945: [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity nuclear weapon test]]: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | File:Trinity detonation.jpg|link=Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1945: [[Trinity (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Trinity nuclear weapon test]]: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | ||
||1958: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks dies ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||1958: Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks dies ... physicist whose work included geology, mineralogy, chemistry, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Pic. | ||
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||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic. | ||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic. | ||
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1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. See Manhattan Project.
1945: Trinity nuclear weapon test: the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. See Manhattan Project.
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1988: Nuclear physicist Herbert L. Anderson dies. Anderson contributed to the Manhattan Project: he was a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University, and he participated in the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity.