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||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | ||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | ||
||1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800) | |||
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. | ||
||1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) | |||
|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. | ||
||1896 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969) | |||
||1903 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974) | |||
||1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | |||
||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. | ||
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. | ||
||Julian Seymour Schwinger (d. July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. | |||
||2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | |||
||2014 – Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920) | |||
||2015 – Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919) | |||
||2015 – Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933) | |||
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Revision as of 15:28, 29 October 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.