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||1911: First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
||1911: First use of aircraft in war: Italo-Turkish War: An Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines.
||1920: Ted Fujita born ... meteorologist (storms researcher) and academic. Pic.


||1944: Charles Glover Barkla dies... physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays). Pic.
||1944: Charles Glover Barkla dies... physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays). Pic.
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.


||1986: Edward Adelbert Doisy dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1986: Edward Adelbert Doisy dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2007: David George Kendall dies ... statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.  Pic.
||2007: David George Kendall dies ... statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical shape analysis, ley lines and queueing theory.  Pic.

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