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1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician Jean Sylvain Bailly born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian.
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945: Extract of Radium distributor and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung uses the death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian as a pretext for stealing the demon core.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm function.

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 File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1945: [[Extract of Radium]] distributor and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] uses the death of physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] as a pretext for stealing the demon core.
+||Samuel King Allison (d. September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic.
 ||1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.