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File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born. | File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|1938: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] born. | ||
||1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. | ||1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. | ||
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||1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890) | ||1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890) | ||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1976: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1976: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1976: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against Nixon." | |||
||1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901) | ||1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901) | ||
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1801: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy born. His achievements will include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
1904: Physicist and crime-fighter Hendrik Lorentz uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries the popular young singer Olive May Franks of Bristol.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1938: Game designer Gary Gygax born.
1976: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1976: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against Nixon."