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1423: Mathematician and architect Antonio Manetti born. He will investigate the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno, and write a biography of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi.
1476: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus dies. He madecontributions to astromony which will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the following decades.
1913: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark born. He will oversee the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
1989: The modern dance ensemble Rhizolith Group performs at New Minneapolis Canadian Arts Festival, debuting an early version of their new choreographic program based on the mission statement of the nascent Electronic Freedom Foundation.
1990: The Electronic Freedom Foundation is founded. EFF is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
2019: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1983: Chemist and academic Stephen Brunauer dies. He resigned from his position with the U.S. Navy during the McCarthy era, when he found it impossible to refute anonymous charges that he was disloyal to the U.S. Pic search.
+||Piper Alpha oil platform explosion - located in the North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited[1] and began production in 1976, initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production. An explosion and resulting oil and gas fires destroyed Piper Alpha on 6 July 1988, killing 167 men, including two crewmen of a rescue vessel; 61 workers escaped and survived. Thirty bodies were never recovered.
 File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|1989: The modern dance ensemble [[Rhizolith Group]] performs at [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis Canadian]] Arts Festival, debuting an early version of their new choreographic program based on the mission statement of the nascent [[Electronic Frontier Foundation (nonfiction)|Electronic Freedom Foundation]].