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File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1957: Investor and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]." | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1957: Investor and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]." | ||
||Carl | ||1974: Carl B. Allendoerfer dies ... mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education. Pic. | ||
||Beniamin Markarian (died 29 September 1985 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain (of galaxies) was named after him when he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion. Pic. | ||Beniamin Markarian (died 29 September 1985 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain (of galaxies) was named after him when he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion. Pic. | ||
||1988: Charles Addams dies ... cartoonist. | ||1988: Charles Addams dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | ||2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | ||
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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.