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||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
||1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.


||1865 Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
||1865: Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.


||1905 Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, French mathematician (d. 1972)
||1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin born ... mathematician.


||1906 William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
||1906: William Feller born ... mathematician and academic.


||1907 Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988)
||1907: Robert A. Heinlein born ... science fiction writer and screenwriter.


||Robert Alden Cornog (b. July 7, 1912), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.
||1912: Robert Alden Cornog born ... physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems from the Snark to the Minuteman. Pic.


||Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler (d. 7 July 1927) was a Swedish mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.
||1918: George Mary Searle dies ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic.


||1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
||1927: Magnus Gustaf (Gösta) Mittag-Leffler dies ... mathematician. His mathematical contributions are connected chiefly with the theory of functions, which today is called complex analysis. Pic.


||1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
||1930: Arthur Conan Doyle dies ... writer.


||Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (b. 7 July 1936) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
||1930: Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).


||1937 The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
||1936: Egbert Valentin Brieskorn born ... mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Pic.
 
||1937: The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.


||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation.
||1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation.

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