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1845: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey dies. His government saw the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
1911: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes criticized for his unpatriotic opinions.
1912: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré dies. He made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1913: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould born. He will invent and name the laser.
1929: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to create artificial snowflakes which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: The Port Chicago disaster: Munitions detonate while being loaded onto a cargo vessel bound for the Pacific Theater of Operations, killing 320 sailors and civilians and injuring 390 others at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.
1944: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis dies. He became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
2016: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.

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 ||1962: Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
+||1964: Operation Snowball was a conventional explosive test to obtain information on nuclear weapon detonations run by the Defence Research Board with participation from the United Kingdom and United States. A detonation of 500 short tons (454 t) of TNT was used to study the resulting phenomena. The test was held at the Suffield Experimental Station in Alberta and was the largest ever man-made, non-accidental explosion in Canada. The test was also the first of its kind using a stacked TNT block hemisphere of such magnitude, a method repeated in six subsequent tests such as Operation Sailor Hat and Prairie Flat. The test allowed verifying predicted properties of shock and blast and determining its effect on a variety of military targets at varied distances from ground zero. Pic.
 ||1975: Donald Bruce Gillies dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments. Pic.