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File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1983: [[High-energy literature]] research project accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematical physicist [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon. | |||
||1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. | ||1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. |
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1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
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1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.