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||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. | ||1970: Percy Spencer dies ... engineer, invented the microwave oven. | ||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)| | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1973: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for his next film by selling shares in the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|pardoning of Richard Nixon]]. | ||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. | ||
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1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1635: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Adriaan Metius manufactures precision optical instruments for detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the pardoning of Richard Nixon.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that President Ford did the right thing by pardoning Nixon."
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2013: Rhizolith Group performs new work in remembrance of mathematician Robert Fludd.