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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. | ||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] endures bullet wound, survives shootout. | |File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] endures bullet wound, survives shootout. | ||
||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:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | |||
||1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. | ||1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. | ||
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File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1945: [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. | File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1945: [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung| | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace." | ||
||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. | ||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. | ||
Revision as of 19:25, 14 July 2017
1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.
1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.