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||1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
||1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)


||Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.
File:Castle Union.jpg|link=Castle Union (nonfiction)|1954: [[Castle Union (nonfiction)|Castle Union]] nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll: the United States detonates the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The explosion causes extensive fallout.
 
Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.


||1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
||1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1985: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl]] is an outstanding investment opportunity."


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).
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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