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File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | ||
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most. | File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most. | ||
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2017: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[ | File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|2017: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]]. | ||
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1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by transdimensional corporations.
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.