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||1903 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974) | ||1903 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974) | ||
||Cyrus Derman (b. July 16, 1925) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic. | |||
||1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | ||1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) | ||
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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.