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||1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868) | ||1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868) | ||
||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. | 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. | |||
||1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. | ||1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1985: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl]] is an outstanding investment opportunity." | |||
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). | File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine). | ||
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1710: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry.
1797: Physicist Hans Christian Ørsted uses electromagnetism to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1798: Artist Eugène Delacroix born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1879: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1919: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new type of Gnomon algorithm which use transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1920: Mathematician and theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan dies. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
1945: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) publishes new class of criminal mathematical functions which forecast the Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction) with 99.947% accuracy.
1954: 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.
1985: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that the upcoming nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl is an outstanding investment opportunity."
1986: A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
1987: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde denies accusations that he was responsible for the Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction).