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||1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975) | ||1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist and academic (d. 1975) | ||
||1910 | File:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.png|file=Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (nonfiction)|Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". | ||
||1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) | ||1937 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) | ||
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||1944 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884) | ||1944 – Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884) | ||
||1973 | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|||1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. | ||
||1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. | ||1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. | ||
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1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
