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||1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
||1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
||1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.


||1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
||1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
||1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.


File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.
File:1969 draft lottery scatterplot.svg|link=Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|1969: The first [[Draft lottery (1969) (nonfiction)|draft lottery]] in the United States is held since World War II.

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  • 1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1910: Physicist Louis Slotin born. He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1947: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy dies. He preferred his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

    1947: Magician and author Aleister Crowley dies. He gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, as a recreational drug experimenter, bisexual, and an individualist social critic; the popular press denounced him as "the wickedest man in the world" and a Satanist.

  • 1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss uses the Gnomon algorithm to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

    1948: Claude Lévi-Strauss uses the Gnomon algorithm to demonstrate that the "savage" mind has the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.

  • 1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

    1969: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

  • 1970: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate Brownian ratchet.

    1970: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 reprogrammed to simulate Brownian ratchet.

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