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||1888: Frits Zernike born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1888: Frits Zernike born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist. | ||1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer born ... biologist and eugenicist. Pic. | ||
||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer. | ||1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1925: Cyrus Derman born ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic. | ||1925: Cyrus Derman born ... mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic. | ||
||1926: Irwin Rose born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1926: Irwin Rose born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | ||1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. | ||
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File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1944: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | ||
||1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. | ||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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 14:32, 21 May 2019
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.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."
1973: Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
