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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]] and the Nixon tapes. | ||
||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic. | ||1978: Haim Ernst Wertheimer dies ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Haim+Ernst+Wertheimer | ||
||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic. | ||1981: Beatrice Tinsley dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
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||1983: Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. | ||1983: Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. | ||
||1985: Richard Beeching dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1985: Richard Beeching dies ... physicist and engineer ... British Railways. Pic. | ||
File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | File:AESOP.jpg|link=AESOP|2000: [[AESOP]] said to be cause of prophetic dreams among the [[Mir (nonfiction)|Mir]] astronauts. | ||
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File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer. | File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|2011: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] dies. She was one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer. | ||
||2013: Boris Berezovsky dies ... mathematician and businessman. | ||2013: Boris Berezovsky dies ... mathematician and businessman ... suicide or murder? Pic. | ||
File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Table Manners]]'' sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1897: Mathematician, physicist, and academic John Lighton Synge born. He will be a prolific author and influential mentor, and be credited with the introduction of a new geometrical approach to the theory of relativity.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
2017: Signed first edition of the "Enter or Exit" sequence from Table Manners sells for five thousand dollars in charity auction of victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
