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1798: Artist Eugène Delacroix born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) accidentally released new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1986: A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).

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 File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1798: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
 File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1945: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' accidentally released new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
+File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
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-– Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Willans_Richardson
-– Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
-– Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
-– Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
-– NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
-– A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.