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File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | |||
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: ''The Eel Discovers Time Travel'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "an illustration of extraordinary prescience." | File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: ''The Eel Discovers Time Travel'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "an illustration of extraordinary prescience." | ||
File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]]. | File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]]. | ||
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1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952: The Eel Discovers Time Travel wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "an illustration of extraordinary prescience."
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.