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File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "advised President Nixon to resign with dignity, and take revenge later."


||Donald William Kerst (d. August 19, 1993) was an American physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts (accelerator physics) and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons. Pic.


||1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
||1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)

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