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||1957: Rocky Flats nuclear plant:  plutonium shavings in a glove box located in building 771 (the Plutonium Recovery and Fabrication Facility) spontaneously ignited. The fire spread to the flammable glove box materials, including plexiglas windows and rubber gloves. The fire rapidly spread through the interconnected glove boxes and ignited the large bank of High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters located in a plenum downstream. Within minutes the first filters had burned out, allowing plutonium particles to escape from the building exhaust stacks.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
||1957: Rocky Flats nuclear plant:  plutonium shavings in a glove box located in building 771 (the Plutonium Recovery and Fabrication Facility) spontaneously ignited. The fire spread to the flammable glove box materials, including plexiglas windows and rubber gloves. The fire rapidly spread through the interconnected glove boxes and ignited the large bank of High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters located in a plenum downstream. Within minutes the first filters had burned out, allowing plutonium particles to escape from the building exhaust stacks.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_contamination_from_the_Rocky_Flats_Plant
File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1972: Talk show host [[Peter Giblets]] exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] on the highest-ever rated episode of the ''Peter Giblets Hour''.


||1986: Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
||1986: Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth dies ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|2013: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] dies. He developed the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|2017: Renaissance-era mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] performs stand-up comedy routine for charity, raises five million dollars for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' stolen from the private collection of celebrity [[Peter Giblets]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, held for ransom.
File:Do_Not_Tease_Monster_by_Karl_Jones_800x600.jpg|link=Do Not Tease Monster (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Do Not Tease Monster]]'' stolen from the private collection of celebrity [[Peter Giblets]] by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang, held for ransom.


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