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||1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858) | ||1913 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858) | ||
||1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) | ||1931 – James Cronin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016). Pic. | ||
||1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | ||1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | ||
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."