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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. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1972: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "assured the President [Richard Nixon] that the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] was a sound investment in the wartime marketplace." | |||
||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. | ||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida. | ||
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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.
1890: Havelock endures bullet wound, survives shootout.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
![1972: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "assured the President [Richard Nixon] that the Manhattan Project was a sound investment in the wartime marketplace."](/w/images/thumb/a/a2/Baron_Zersetzung.jpg/80px-Baron_Zersetzung.jpg)
1972: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "assured the President [Richard Nixon] that the Manhattan Project was 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.