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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)."
2015: Two Creatures 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1895: Harold Hotelling born ... 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 born ... botanist and parapsychologist.
+||1895: Joseph Banks Rhine born ... botanist and parapsychologist. Rhine who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association. Pic.
 ||1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko born ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic.