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||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.
||1991: Naum Yakovlevich Vilenkin born ... mathematician, an expert in combinatorics. He is best known as the author of many books in recreational mathematics aimed at middle and high school students. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/944039.N_Ya_Vilenkin


||1992: Magnus Pyke dies ... scientist and television host.
||1992: Magnus Pyke dies ... scientist and television host.

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  • 1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).

    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".

    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.

    1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

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