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||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | ||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | ||
File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. | File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. | ||
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.