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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|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." | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|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." | ||
|| | ||1979: Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan born ... physicist and academic ... will be assassinated ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mostafa+Ahmadi-Roshan | ||
||1980: Joseph Finnegan dies ... linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War. | ||1980: Willard Libby dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1980: Joseph Finnegan dies ... linguist and cryptanalyst with Station Hypo during the Second World War. Pic search '+ hypo': https://stationhypo.com/2017/04/18/part-2-of-5-battle-of-coral-sea-what-did-mo-designate/ | |||
||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1981: Hideki Yukawa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. | ||
||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2009: Aage Bohr dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2010: George Christopher Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. | ||2010: George Christopher Williams dies ... evolutionary biologist. | ||
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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.
1959: While vacationing in New Minneapolis, Canada, theoretical physicist Edward Teller visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where he engages the owners in a spirited debate on the merits of thermonuclear war.
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.
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly generates a clone of artist Karl Jones.