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||1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll born ... cryptanalyst. Pic. | ||1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll born ... cryptanalyst. Pic. | ||
File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1897: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | File:Amelia Earhart standing under nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electral.jpg|link=Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|1897: Pilot and author [[Amelia Earhart (nonfiction)|Amelia Earhart]] born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. | ||
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||1900: Zoltán Lajos Bay born ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic. | ||1900: Zoltán Lajos Bay born ... physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. Pic. |
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1786: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet born. He will map the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.
1820: Physician and APTO field surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which improve outcomes in battlefield medicine and triage by up to five percent per kilobyte.
1897: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart born. She will set many records, write best-selling books about her flying experiences, and be instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
1901: O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1934: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn dies. He made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1973: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for his next film by selling shares in the Watergate scandal.
1974: Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "advised President Nixon to have one of the Supreme Court justices murdered, as a lesson to the others."