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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]].
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.


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.
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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."
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."


||Carl Axel Fredrik Benedicks (b. 27 May 1875) was a Swedish 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.


||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.


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.


||Jerrold Reinach Zacharias (d. July 16, 1986) was an American physicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer. His scientific work was in the area of nuclear physics. Pic.
||1979: The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred in the US state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock uranium mill tailings disposal pond breached its dam. Over 1,000 tons of solid radioactive mill waste and 93 million gallons of acidic, radioactive tailings solution flowed into the Puerco River, and contaminants traveled 80 miles (130 km) downstream to Navajo County, Arizona and onto the Navajo Nation.


||Herbert Lawrence Anderson (d. July 16, 1988) was a Jewish American nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also 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. He participated in the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity. Pic.
||1986: Jerrold Reinach Zacharias dies ... physicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer. His scientific work was in the area of nuclear physics. Pic.


||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.  
||1988: Herbert Lawrence Anderson dies ... nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also 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. He participated in the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity. Pic.


||2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
||1994: Julian Seymour Schwinger dies ... 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.  


||Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (d. 16 July 2013) was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.
||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer.


||2014 – Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920)
||2013: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov dies ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.


||2015 – Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919)
||2014: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic.


||2015 – Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933)
||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author.
 
||2015: Evelyn Ebsworth dies ... chemist and academic.


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  • 1530: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself Havelock.

    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.

    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.

    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: 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."

    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.

    1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

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