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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]]. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] meets a man he calls "The Judge", who calls himself [[Havelock]]. | ||
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||2013: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov dies ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic. | ||2013: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov dies ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic. | ||
||2014: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||2014: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic ... computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorized computers on the European continent. Pic | ||
||2015: | ||2015: Denis Avey dies ... soldier, engineer, and author ... "The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz" ... Avey saved the life of Jewish prisoner Ernst Lobethal, by smuggling cigarettes to him. Pic. | ||
File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Red Spiral 2.jpg|link=Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Red Spiral 2 (nonfiction)|Red Spiral 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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Revision as of 02:16, 16 July 2019
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.
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: 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.
2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
