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||1946: The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
||1946: The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1960: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new film about the upcoming [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]].


File:Goldsboro Mk 39 bomb.jpg|link=1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]]: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
File:Goldsboro Mk 39 bomb.jpg|link=1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]]: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1977: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that the upcoming [[Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|Kosmos 954 radioactive debris scattering event]] is a sound business investment."


||1966: Homi J. Bhabha dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1966: Homi J. Bhabha dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
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||2016: David Ritz Finkelstein dies ... professor of physics ... Finkelstein and Charles W. Misner found the gravitational kink, a topological defect in the gravitational metric, whose quantum theory could exhibit spin 1/2. Finkelstein determined that whatever falls past the Schwarzschild radius into a black hole cannot escape it; the membrane is one-directional.  Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Finkelstein2 (local copy)
||2016: David Ritz Finkelstein dies ... professor of physics ... Finkelstein and Charles W. Misner found the gravitational kink, a topological defect in the gravitational metric, whose quantum theory could exhibit spin 1/2. Finkelstein determined that whatever falls past the Schwarzschild radius into a black hole cannot escape it; the membrane is one-directional.  Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Finkelstein2 (local copy)


File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Janet Beta]].


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  • 1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

    1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.

  • 1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

    1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.

  • 1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

    1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

  • 1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

    1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

  • 1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

    1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.

  • 2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies. Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope).

    2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies. Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope).

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