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||1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. | ||1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. | ||
||Harold Hotelling (b. September 29, 1895) was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic. | |||
||1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980) | ||1895 – Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1980) | ||
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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)."