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||1952: The Grauballe Man's body was first discovered buried in a bog by a team of peat diggers.  
||1952: The Grauballe Man's body was first discovered buried in a bog by a team of peat diggers.  


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.
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.


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.
||1960: Wander Johannes de Haas dies ... physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect and the Einstein–de Haas effect. Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wander_Johannes_de_Haas


||1962: NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
||1962: NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

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