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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]]. | ||
||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | |||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1746: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] born. He will discover dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] endures bullet wound, survives shootout. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] endures bullet wound, survives shootout. | ||
||1935 – The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | |||
||1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. | |||
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1945: [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico. | |||
||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. | |||
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Revision as of 16:08, 16 June 2017
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.
1890: Havelock endures bullet wound, survives shootout.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.