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||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician
||Lothar Collatz (b. July 6, 1910) was a German mathematician
||Jordan Carson Mark (b. July 6, 1913) was a Canadian-born mathematician best known for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark joined the Manhattan Project in 1945, and continued to work at Los Alamos under the leadership of Norris Bradbury after World War II ended. He became the leader of the Theoretical Division at the laboratory in 1947, a position he held until 1973. He oversaw the development of new weapons, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. On the hydrogen bomb project he was able to bring together experts like Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam and Marshall Holloway despite their personal differences.


||1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.
||1944 – Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial.

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