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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 blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
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:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
-File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Time-travelling combat physician [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Colonel Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]].
+File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1958: Combat physician and alleged time-traveller [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] prevents [[Colonel Zersetzung]] from detonating the [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|Tybee Bomb]].
 File:Mk15 nuclear bomb.jpg|link=1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|1958: The United States military announces that the search for [[1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (nonfiction)|hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful]].