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||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart.
||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart.


||1912: Harold R. McCluskey (July 12, 1912 – August 17, 1987) was a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/
||1912: Harold R. McCluskey born ... a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/


||1913: Willis Lamb born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
||1913: Willis Lamb born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

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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.

    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.

    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."

    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.

    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.

    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.

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