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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''.
||1972: Johannes de Groot dies ... mathematician, the leading Dutch topologist for more than two decades following World War II. Pic.
 
File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|1973: 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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  • 1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

    1470: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller born. He will produce a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

  • 1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller Michel de Montaigne, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of high-energy literature.

    1581: Philosopher and alleged time-traveller Michel de Montaigne, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, publishes new theory predicting the existence of high-energy literature.

  • 1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1798: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann born. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds will include what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

    1831: Mathematician Carl Jacobi appointed professor. After a four hour disputation in Latin, Jacobi was appointed professor at the University of Konigsberg. While there he inaugurated what was then a complete novelty in mathematics: research seminars for the more advanced students and interested colleagues.

  • 1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

    1843: Mathematician and explorer Joseph Nicollet dies. He mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

  • 1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1859: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid uses principles of hypnotherapy to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

    1862: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, born.

  • 1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host Dick Cavett on the highest-ever rated episode of the Peter Giblets Hour.

    1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets exchanges record number of witticisms-per-minute with talk show host Dick Cavett on the highest-ever rated episode of the Peter Giblets Hour.

  • 1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

    1997: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

  • 2013: Mathematician and computer scientist 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.

    2013: Mathematician and computer scientist 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.

  • 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.

    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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