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||2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | ||2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925) | ||
||Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (d. 16 July 2013) was a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic. | |||
||2014 – Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920) | ||2014 – Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920) | ||
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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.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: Industrialist, public speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says the Manhattan Project is "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.