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||1947: Irving Fisher dies ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.
||1947: Irving Fisher dies ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.


||1951: Ludwig Wittgenstein dies ... philosopher and academic...He worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Pic.
File:Ludwig_Wittgenstein.jpg|link=Ludwig Wittgenstein (nonfiction)|1951: Philosopher and academic [[Ludwig Wittgenstein (nonfiction)|Ludwig Wittgenstein]] dies. Wittgenstein contributed to logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.  


||1953: The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
||1953: The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
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File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
File:The Shovel.jpg|link=The Shovel|1987: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Shovel]]'' unexptedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, apparently a transdimensional contract requiring [[Egon Rhodomunde]] and [[Baron Zersetzung]] to "[[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|blow up a nuclear power plant, and this time do it right]]".


||1992: Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.
||1992: Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 63 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

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