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1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Colonel Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series explains why Colonel Zersetzung failed to detonate the Tybee Bomb.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 sells for $150,000 in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

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+File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series explains why [[Colonel Zersetzung]] failed to detonate the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]].
 ||1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.