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||1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863) | ||1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863) | ||
||1971 | File:Cannikin.jpg|link=Cannikin (nonfiction)|1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named [[Cannikin (nonfiction)|Cannikin]], on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | ||
||2002 – Sid Sackson, American game designer (b. 1920) | ||2002 – Sid Sackson, American game designer (b. 1920) | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.