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||1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
||1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
||Paul Albert Gordan (d. 21 December 1912) was a German mathematician. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Pic.


||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (b. December 21, 1912) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success.
||Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard (b. December 21, 1912) was an American linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success.

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