Template:Selected anniversaries/August 20

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  • 1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.

    1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.

  • 1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

    1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

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