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File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born.
File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1939: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] criticized for unpatriotic opinions.


||1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
||1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
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||1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890)
||1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890)


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1976: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1976: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1976: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against Nixon."


||1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901)
||1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901)

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