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||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | ||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | ||
File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. | File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. | ||
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||1998: Iran Chain Murders: Dariush Forouhar assassinated (Persian: داریوش فروهر; 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran. Pic. | ||1998: Iran Chain Murders: Dariush Forouhar assassinated (Persian: داریوش فروهر; 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran. Pic. | ||
||2001: Luís Antoni Santaló Sors dies - mathematician. Pic. | |||
||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic. | ||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic. | ||
||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic. | ||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Self portrait with Atrocity Exhibition 20221122 205256.jpg|link=Self portrait with atrocity exhibition|2022: '''[[Self portrait with atrocity exhibition]]'''. | |||
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
