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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.
2011: The Dawn space probe enters Vesta's orbit. Dawn will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
2016: Red Spiral 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||2002: John Cocke dies ... computer scientist and engineer.
+File:Dawn spacecraft model.png|link=Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' space probe enters Vesta's orbit. ''[[Dawn (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Dawn]]'' will study Vesta and Ceres, two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt.
 ||2013: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov dies ... mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. Pic.