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||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | ||1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. | ||
||Samuel Molyneux FRS (16 July 1689), son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct.[1] In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland. | |||
||1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800) | ||1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800) | ||
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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.