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||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nancy+Farley+"Nan"+Wood | ||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nancy+Farley+"Nan"+Wood | ||
||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. | ||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Elbert+Kimball | ||
||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart. | ||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart. | ||
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File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | ||
||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. | ||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. Pic. | ||
||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. | ||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. | ||
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1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.
